Christina Hoff Sommers Quotes

Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.

Christina Hoff Sommers

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There are certainly actors who I felt rivalries with, but then, as time goes on, you realize that you have to keep your eyes on your own paper because everybody's doing their own work.

Andrew Rannells

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The roughest make-up I ever wore was for 'Phantom of the Opera' because the phantom's face was all disfigured, and he's trying to pass in public so he can attend his beloved opera. That was make-up over make-up.

Robert Englund

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I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

Robert Caro

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Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable.

Mathieu Kassovitz

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I like building.

Ross Levinsohn

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It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me.

Judith Guest

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Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

Dorothy Day

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Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather.

William Hamilton

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I love acting, though I don't like the frills around it - red-carpet appearances, dressing up to look a certain way.

Swara Bhaskar

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I feel like every time I tweet, I lose money.

Pete Davidson

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If somebody tells me I'm famous I say, 'I'm not.' I can't see myself as famous and I don't think I'll ever call myself famous. I definitely don't feel famous.

Shayne Ward

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Ask not what the role can do for you; ask what you can do for the role.

Ricardo Montalban

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