Brian De Palma Quotes

Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.

Brian De Palma

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I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American hybrid. And I also have on my father's side a great-great-grandmother who was Chinese. So, I'm a hybrid.

Jessica Hagedorn

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If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.

Anna Paquin

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My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

Robert Griffin III

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I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.

Anna Held

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If anything's progressive, then we make progress.

Michael Giles

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I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.

Sue Monk Kidd

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We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting.

Rose Schneiderman

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When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome are actually the things that make us more human.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.

Diane von Furstenberg

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No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

Dee Dee Myers

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I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

Delta Goodrem

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One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.

Chris Ware

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