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"All the baggage that comes with fame, being an actress. The down side to it is the intrusion into your life and this expectation that because they've seen you onscreen, they kind of have a right to you as a human being and personally and in your life."
"It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end."
"Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?"
"I'm not afraid to have the ratchet side because that's a part of me too. I like to turn up, I am from Oakland. But at the same time, there's still a classy side to me that I've seen in Oakland as well."
"Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas."
"I loved Frank [O'Connor], he was wonderful...just don't get on his bad side. I don't think I would have wanted to marry him, but I probably should have since I married idiots anyway."
"To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo."
"Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death."
"Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary."
"Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all."
"I've always thought of myself as a businesswoman. I have the creative side, but I also have this business sense."
"There are those who will find [Albert Camus] notions about absurdity appealing, and others who will be drawn by the solar side of his work, about Algeria, the heat and so on."
"Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash so well a cop won't find it. They're always wrong."
"The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names."
"We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation."
"Art should be on the side of humanity."
"Despite 18 years as a non-partisan public servant, my deeper "tribal" affinity has always been Tory. The Afghanistan file has given me an additional reason to cleave to that side of the spectrum. Canadian Conservatives have generally been more comfortable and confident with hard security issues."
"Representative Chris Lee was forced to resign after sending a shirtless picture of himself to a woman on Craigslist. On the bright side, he DID surprise his wife for Valentines Day."
"If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon."
"I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on."
