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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 with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Balanced Easy Find Gifts
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I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Always Books Did Falling
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A great wind is blowing and that either gives you imagination...or a headache.

Great Wind Blowing Imagination
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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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I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.

Like Praise Reward Loud
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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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In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read

Position Read Write Talk
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The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten. I have this expression on my face - it's not a smile, it's not a frown. I swear to you, that's the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, 'I cannot believe how God has blessed me.'

Around Believe Blessed Cannot
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I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

Heart Rest Life Emotional
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It became motivation as opposed to something else - the thing about poverty is that it starts affecting your mind and your spirit because people don't see you. I chose from a very young age that I didn't want that for my life. And it very much has helped me appreciate and value the things that are in my life now because I never had it.

About Affecting Age Appreciate
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I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.

Life Think Secret Children
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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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Never say that your life is to be a singer. You want to sing because it's a part of your life. But if you don't succeed as a singer, it doesn't mean you don't have a life and it's over.

Life Want Singer Part
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Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

Familiar People Keep Dreaming
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I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.

Love Sing Perform I
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Another Key Lessons Life
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There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

Thing Aging Maturing Knowledge
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My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I'm not holding onto a dream. I'm holding onto my life.

Dream Grounded Feet Life
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Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

Love People Stand Solitude
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Because Betrayed Courage Every
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Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Once Start Working Afraid
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A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Person Honest Straight Trees
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Anything Elegant Few Self
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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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As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Fear Soon Approaches Attack
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Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Education Friend Person Respected
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The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman

World Biggest Power Youth
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A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Good Wife Serve Husband
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Test Servant Duty Relative
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The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Wise Man Restrain Sense
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The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Earth Supported Power Truth
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The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

One Excellent Thing Learned
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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
Upright Dealing Forest Straight
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He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Overly Attached Family Members
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It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

Complete Crimes Fortune Gods
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I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Always Dignity First Life
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Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

Different Falling Having Love
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I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

Believe Connection First Love
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Do good in this life. We ain’t going to live this world alive just have fun and wish people good even if they do you bad never pay evil for evil.

Do good Life Fun Pay
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I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

Roles Genres Able Films
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It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Kind Outside Guess Guy
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I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.

Course Handsome Sexy Hopeless
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The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Shame Divide Celebrate Film
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I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

Dumb Happen People Got
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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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Only the intelligent ones will understand. The fool will argue

Intelligent Understand Fool Argue
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Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

Beard Believe Long God
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How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

Wonder Aging Terror Confront
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