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I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

More Successful Mother Show
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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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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Friend Masterpiece May Nature
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I wasn't good at school.

Good School Wasn't
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Assertion Beauty Flowers Proud
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Child Get Glad Him
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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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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Built Civilized Coach Feet
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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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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Books Useful Stupid Person
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As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Fear Soon Approaches Attack
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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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The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
Dog Life Uneducated Man
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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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No matter how high I wan high I no fit high pass the most HIGH!

No matter High Fit Most high
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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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Na small shit dey stain nickah, so watch your ass

Shit Small Stain Watch your ass
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Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

Beauty Been Culture Every
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It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
Antagonism Culture Feel Fuse
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As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Always Hungry Knowledge New
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I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

Alive Altogether Argue Certain
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I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

About Certainly Close Creativity
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Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard.
Beard Ever Me Met
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Beautiful Calculation Everything Noble
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I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s.

Am Far Grounded I Am
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I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me.

Away Certain Disaster Knew
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.

Clearly Even Old Person
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When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.

Cousin Date Father Girl
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People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.

About Adoption Began Birth
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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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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.

Better English First Foreign
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We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.

Because Culture Had Never
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I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power.

Against Also Away Best
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I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.

Audience Beautiful Cheering Everybody
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.

Been Being Cultures Designers
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I'll be truly happy when we're not counting the number of ethnically diverse models on a fashion runway or campaign, when having a representation of the entire human race is the norm and not an exception.

Campaign Counting Diverse Entire
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I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

Baby Until Never Know
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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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My whole thing is, I've got to be as good, as courageous as what's written on the page.

Courageous Good Got Page
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

Adamant Father Follow Footsteps
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When you see a parent pass, and you literally are there, and you're sitting at that deathbed, man, and you have to tell them to go, it defines life for what it really is.

Deathbed Defines Go Life
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Cannot Dined Love Sleep
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

Always Down Jelly Much
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Centuries Figure Glasses Looking
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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Anguish Beauty Cutting Edges
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I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry.

Been Book Could Fashion
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.

Body Even Girl Had
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Beyond Literature Men Minded
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