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I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.

I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek.

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together.

'Dawson's Creek' was my introduction to the industry. It put some money in my pocket and it put me in the position I wanted to be in, where I could audition for projects that I wanted to be a part of. I didn't find it creatively fulfilling in any way though.

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

As soon as he thinks about the record, he's finished. The secret is to put it out of your mind.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.

It is a juggling act and I have been in it for 12 years now, which is about 11 years longer than I thought I would be, and then the priority there is thinking how can I stay somewhat irrelevant so that you can continue to survive and can continue to work and put yourself in a position to get to do the work you are truly passionate about.

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows - I'm just now starting to thin them out a bit.

When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.

All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either.

He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.

I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.