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I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

Women Active Politic Nervous
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I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems. The correct solutions will come with the correct identification of the problems.

Problems Seek Truth Historical
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Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Actual Times Cowards Deaths
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The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Assertion Men Created Equally
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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Great Contest God Claims
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

Believe Men Universal Acknowledged
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Hear Preach See Act
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

All-Powerful Animals Architect Character
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

Character Contemplation Matter Mind
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

Acting Adolescence Behind Best
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Also Character Confession Opinion
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Character Dreams Judge Natural
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Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

Happiness Unhappiness Heart Spirit
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Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.
Nothing Difficult Opinion Avoid
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Egos are an occupational hazard in acting, but I don't have much of one, and my husband doesn't have much of one, so it's good.

Acting Egos Good Hazard
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It's a dream to be able to just play a multi-faceted character.
Able Character Dream Just
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You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny, and all the things that a person could be. If you can achieve that, you feel great. You so rarely get to do that as an actress in general, but as a black actress, it's almost never.

Able Achieve Actress Almost
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Flashy characters are more entertaining to people because you get it. You don't have to work to get someone who says what they mean and says what they think. They're out there. It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness.

Because Character Characters Consciousness
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Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Work Always Ask Questions
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Start with facts before you add your opinion

Start Facts Opinion You
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I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Life Between Kind Living
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I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.

Consider Muslim Myself Never
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I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.

Exactly Old Family Kitchen
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When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

Abject Exactly Exactly The Way Grow
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Vanity destroys your work. That's the one thing you have to let go of as an actor. I don't care how sexy or beautiful any woman is. At the end of the day, she has to take her makeup off. At the end of the day, she's more than just pretty.

Actor Any Beautiful Care
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I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.

Actually Business Dreams Feel
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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Action Either Itself Must
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Actions lie louder than words.

Actions Lie Louder Words
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I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

Fond Achieving Striving Theories
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I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

Act Doing Fright Had
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

Owing Mute Give Qualities
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

About Actions Experiment Life
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I can't believe this is happening to me. The weirdest thing is it was just a dream, and now it's actually real. It's hard to believe sometimes.

Actually Believe Dream Happening
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The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

Action Any Blow Cost
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We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

Cans Color Factory Make
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You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.

Actually Barbie Been Bit
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Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Family Insanity Practically Runs
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To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

Acting Being Character Get
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I'm extremely happy, but I don't do love songs for the most part. It feels weird; that's such a personal thing to me. I'd rather live that in my real life and play a different character outside of that.

Character Different Extremely Feels
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I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.

About Always Amazed Attraction
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It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

Acting Actor Career Decided
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Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

About Actor Actress Arms
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I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.

Ballpark Batman Character Crowd
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There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

Those Who Thousand Miracle
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I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

Actress Always Certainly Direct
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I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.
Characters Interested Particularly Playing
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When you know how to do something well, it’s adds to your confidence. Practice practice practice till it becomes you

Confidence Know Practice You
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Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

Town People Old Ones
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Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
Hope Always Ahead Possibility
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Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

Creation Knack Empowered Practice
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