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"But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?"
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"I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me."
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"Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring."
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"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."
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"Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground."
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"You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable."
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"I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not."
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"You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student."
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"If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go -within 10 minutes - to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, 'See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.'"
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"You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself."
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"Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously. The fact that a reader may buy an Armani item because she'd seen it on me in a magazine is very important to me. So much so that I intend to launch my own label."
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"Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times."
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"The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots."
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"I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person."
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"The only one who is alive today and still being talked about is Pierre Cardin."
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"Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA."
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"Dick Enberg is still around and still being as good as he ever was."
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"I never had that reputation of being not accessible."
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"I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done."
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"I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you."
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"A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure."
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"Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done."
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"Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth."
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"It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?"
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"Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought."
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"I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch on the next song; I'd play piano... we'd play mandolin."
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"Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted."
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"For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten."
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"Well, mines was a sub machine gun. That was my personal weapon with being the first person in the patrol. I used to lead the patrol. Used to have a leading scout, a second scout and then the officer. The officer would be third. As I say, it was educational."
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"Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase."
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"You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb."
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"Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters."
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