My part had three lines. I said, 'You look wonderful, sir,' three times. All my friends said, 'Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life.' I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

By : Barbara Jordan

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Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.

By : Waylon Jennings

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Content is a word unknown to life

By : John Fowles

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The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

By : Joyce Maynard

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I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them.

By : Richard Russo

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Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

By : Bobby Darin

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My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

By : Jessica Savitch

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The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.

By : Aly Khan

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There is a courtesy of the heart

By : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

By : Sam Mendes

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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

By : Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze.

By : Teri Garr

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