"The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them."
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"And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness."
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"If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything."
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"I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching a story by Hemingway, my endeavor is to present the story that Hemingway wrote in its fullest realization."
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"Does it bother me that I'm attached to 'Three's Company' 30 years after? Not at all. All we were trying to do was be funny. How can I complain? That's all I wanted to do."
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"Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it."
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"We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying."
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"We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives."
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"I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with."
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"God's grace will never be available to you to become another person. He created to be you - the best "you" you can be! Forget about trying to be someone else."
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"People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'"
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"It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it."
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"There were a few things that, in rehearsal, any one of us might try. [John] Hughes would go, "I like that," to me spitting up in the air and catching it in my mouth. It was just something I did in a rehearsal and Molly [ Ringwald] went, "Ewww." And John went, "Can you do that again?" And I went all day long, and he was like, "Okay, let's do that.""
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"If you read a script enough, especially a good script - I try to read it 40 to 50 times before you begin so you get a sense of the arc: what happens before, what happens after, what happens during."
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"You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy."
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"I never did like the assertion of the "innate" inferiority or women or Blacks, and I understood that when people tried to talk that way, they were trying to "fix" a social reality into a natural necessity. And yet, sometimes we do need a language that refers to a basic, fundamental, enduring, and necessary dimension of who we are, and the sense of sexed embodiment can be precisely that."
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"Try not to annoy your relatives unnecessarily."
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"I'm an actress and I want to act, and I'm a mom and I want to be with my kids, and it's trying to find a way to do both."
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"You know, if you're trying to mark your territory, you could've just peed on me before I came over here and saved us both a lot of time!"
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"My God, Jack - with a look like that, you two should just get a room. And try not to pick the one with a dead body next to it this time."
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