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I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.

Success People Wrote Down
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

Channel Master Water Bend
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I am a product of Nollywood and my loyalty remains unshaken.

I Product Nollywood Loyalty
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It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid.

Men Woods Paid Real
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I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians.

Many Way Hollywood Allen
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In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

Day Enough Fast Hollywood
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In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

Could Evidently Full Hollywood
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I will admit, I once launched myself at Julie Garwood for a hug, hoping some of her magic would rub off on me... and I have fangirl crushes on Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Linda Howard, and Kresley Cole, among many others.

Admit Among Crushes Elizabeth
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Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?

Woman Funny Wooden Table
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When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood - and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii.

Being Connection Elvis Ford
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Because Came Could Deliberately
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Bald Before Being Citizen
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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Best Birds Except Possess
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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Boring Footsteps Hollow Made
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Been Flock Glad Government
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

About Books Carefully Fine
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Beautiful Before Loveliness More
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

Contrast Counterfeit Crises Deeply
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Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

Fields Hills Live Love
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Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.
Always Biggest Hollywood Plagiarism
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

Delights Fills Majesty Noble
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I was in the cement end of the construction business, as a laborer. I was pouring concrete, and stripping forms off of set concrete, and pulling nails, and stacking plywood, and doing that kind of thing. I was in peak condition in those days.

Business Cement Concrete Condition
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My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

Alien Became Born Boston
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I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.

Boring Hollywood Most Outside
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Black Little Live Makes
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

Always I Love I Think Idol
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

About Around Close Hobbies
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It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.

Always Any Around Doubts
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My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.

Ability Driving Get Helped
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

American Could Directors Discrimination
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

Any Because Definitely Embracing
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I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.

I So Am Stereotype
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Contract Hollywood Instead Observation
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When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

When Hollywood Box-office Results
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There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

Because Believe Did Easy
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
All The Difference Difference Less Made
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Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
Hollywood Later Make Me
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I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

Belt Direction Hollywood Just
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The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Admired Ambition American Average Boyfriend
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Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Away Awhile Break Clean
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The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.

Also Begin Damage Few
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Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.

Bark Birds Brush Centuries
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Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

Adventurous Armed Beasts Came
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

Again Box Care Honey
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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

Been Books Cinematic Films
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I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

Group Guy Member Nailed
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if you play the numbers game and become obsessed with it, as so many in Hollywood are, sooner or later you have to face the depressing fact that if you are number one the only place you can go is down.

Game Obsessed Hollywood Depressed
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I am deeply grateful to the President and to my country. ... To come from Cincinnati, Ohio, for God's sake, then to go to Hollywood, and to get this kind of tribute from my country. ... I love this country so much.

Deeply Grateful President Country
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Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Cents Dollars Fifty Hollywood
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In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

Ask Dog English Even
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