“If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken, A ruin'd glove, a faded flower; Something that makes my pleasure less, Something that means--forgetfulness.”
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“Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.”
“The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue”
“Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.”
“An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million”
“It's a very painful, eye-opening experience to realize, "Wait a minute, my dad actually doesn't want me to be successful because he's not happy." Whether you call it misery loves company, it's not like parents are bad people. It's a human trait. It's just a thing.”
“Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.”
“Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.”
“In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.”
“I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.”
“One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.”
“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.”
“There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.”
“As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.”
“Maybe next time, but probably not.”
“Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.”
“Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.”
“Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.”
“Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained - if you ate animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.”
“When I started out, maybe because I did Thelma & Louise early on - but people were always asking, "Are things better for women now?" I would say, "Yeah, I think so. It seems like it." Then a few years in, I started saying, "I think so. I'm getting a lot of good parts, but I don't know." Then eventually, I was like, "Google it. I don't know, but it doesn't seem great."”