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I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.
Sarah Brightman
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If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.


Robin Williams
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One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.
Jerome Bruner
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
Barbara Kingsolver
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One of the most beautiful things in the world is seeing a mommy with her kids. There's nothing more beautiful, nothing more sublime.
Johnny Depp
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A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.


Malcolm Gladwell
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Broadcast radio was entering its own golden age during the Depression, with live programming on stations all through the day. Local stations needed singers, musicians, announcers, and whipcord personalities, along with Christian clergy to give prayers and pundits to speak on world affairs.
Douglas Brinkley
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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, 'You saved my dad's life.'
Dick Cavett
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I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.
Rudolf Nureyev
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
Ulrich Beck
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I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.


Dhani Jones
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If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.
Chris Crutcher
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My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I've taken that with me to every job.
Mary Barra
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With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school. Each time you try to go a little further, get a little deeper, feel a little more, sculpt it a little better.
Kim Basinger
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Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.
Peter Zumthor
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The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.
Jon Meacham
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When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.
Zendaya
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
Larry Elder
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It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.


Robert Southey
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It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.
Natalie Cole
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