I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich. - Suzan-Lori Parks

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Some people are so busy in learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

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Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

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Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. — Vivian Greene

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Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.

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Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.

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Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

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You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are. — Melissa Etheridge

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God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell. - Adam Sandler

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Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew.

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