"Shirley MacLaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too."
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"I still think Brooke Shields is aces. She's really smart, interesting, doesn't feel that her time is more valuable than anyone else's. Really hardworking. And I knew that if she was the star of the show, it's going to be a good experience. And it was."
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"We have the reverse of the Puritan work ethic in America now. No one ever becomes a star by plugging along year after year. What is needed is flair, talent, 'an eye,' contacts, charisma, and, most of all, naturalness."
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"Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why."
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"Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another -- killing and being killed, eating and being eaten, in harmonious proportions and quantities."
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"The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children."
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"The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness."
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"... for, by all the stars That tend thy bidding, I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!"
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"We have bottled all the stars this evening, my young friend."
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"My biggest hero when I was a kid was Will Smith. I used to watch 'Fresh Prince,' and I was a huge fan of his albums. I bought all of his albums when I was a kid. Now, he is the biggest movie star in the world."
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"Bono is my inspiration - not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren't just put on this earth to sell records. Maybe it's because of my upbringing, but I do consider myself a moral guy."
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"I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are."
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"As soon as you start publishing, you are the star and so people see you that way."
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"The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen."
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"For the Infinite has sowed his name in the heavens in burning stars, but on the earth He has sowed his name in tender flowers."
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"It’s never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can’t see them."
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"I'm not the biggest star in the world, but I do have a platform, and if I can use that platform to help somebody else, why wouldn't I?"
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"TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing."
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"Snap your fingers and somebody runs / You don't care how they feel just as long as they come / Got your head in the stars now you've come this far / Just who do you think you are?"
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"You need a bit more to be a pop star than just a good voice."
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