"If I was going to be a princess, I would be a warrior princess."
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"I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day."
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"I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood."
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"My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden."
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"If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit."
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"I don't really know who I am as an actor: the best thing would be to experiment with it for the next 30 years and never really find out."
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"For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life."
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"It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be."
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"Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham would be great fiction writers, and by any but the most commercial standards they're not even very good."
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"I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue."
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"Discover your own discontent, and be grateful, for without divine discontent there would be no creative force."
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"Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy."
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"Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead."
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"I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that."
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"Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?"
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"In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural."
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"I can act normally, and I can go out, but people around you don't act normally. If it was normal, I'd go out and have my dinner and nobody would be video-phoning me eating my dinner."
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"I fought NAFTA when it passed; it has been a big disaster for us, in my opinion. If we can renegotiate that, it would be wonderful."
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"Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient."
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"One who will study for three years. Without thought of reward. Would be hard indeed to find."
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