Julia Stiles Quotes

I love baseball. As a teenager, I was a contrarian and picked the underdog instead of just rooting for the Yankees. It's a hard team to root for, but there's something that always keeps me hopeful.

Julia Stiles

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LoveBaseballMeTeamUnderdogHard

They want to portray me as crazy, unhinged, unbalanced. OK, good, fine.

Andrew Breitbart

GoodMeCrazyWantFineOK

I love bringing the inanimate object to life.

John Lasseter

LifeLoveObjectI LoveInanimate

For the past 25 years as an adoption attorney, I have witnessed the extraordinary courage and compassion of women - from age 14 to 40 - facing unplanned pregnancy. Not once did I believe that the government should interfere with their personal and private decision.

Ann McLane Kuster

WomenAgeCourageDecisionPast

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

Michael Caine

I AmPerformanceMy OwnAlwaysOwn

You have to think of a new way to make something new. And the biggest sin - you can never try too hard. You can never look like you're just trying to shock people, 'cause that's simple. But making people laugh is the hard part.

John Waters

SimplePeopleThinkLaughYouLook

I half-punched a paparazzo once. I've hit a few people.

Sienna Miller

PeopleHitOnceFewFew People

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

Rita Mae Brown

LifeWorkTimeBelieveYouNothing

To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.

Bobby Ghosh

WorkConflictMeasureTragedyTribe

One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.

Bode Miller

YourselfPerformanceEnthusiasmEnjoy

I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.

April Winchell

MusicI AmYouBadGoddessHard

I think 'No' is a very powerful word in our business that is very hard to use early on in your career. But I also think I was pretty arrogant when I was younger... I used that word maybe too much, but it did help me with finding roles that I did like.

Peter Dinklage

BusinessMeThinkHelpPowerful

My grandmother was this amazing woman in the Dominican Republic who used to read tea leaves and palms. She would cure people in her neighborhood by going into her garden, plucking a couple of leaves, and brewing teas.

Selenis Leyva

WomanTeaPeopleAmazingGardenShe

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