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For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.
As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
I'm a nearly uncontrollable Geoff Dyer fan, who I think is one of the most comically brilliant writers today.
Zuckerberg rejected $2 billion for Facebook and has successfully created a company worth nearly $200 billion.
Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.
That 'adult contemporary' status nearly killed me... C'mon, I'm not a teenager, but I'm not a dinosaur either.
The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.
There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly for younger children.
Most economists use 'fixed' and 'pegged' as interchangeable or nearly interchangeable terms for exchange rates.
I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.
Nearly every industry in America, from carbon trading to bricklaying, hosts its own back-slapping awards night.
Mother's Day is a welcome event in partisan times. Nearly everyone agrees that we should show mothers gratitude.
I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.
Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.
These days it takes a child nearly 20 years to find out that Superman, Batman will not come to his or her rescue.
Obesity is a problem that nearly every nation in the world is facing, but there is much that we can do to fix it.
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.
'The Admirable Crichton' is probably Barrie's most famous work after 'Peter Pan', nearly a pendant to that classic.
Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.
I wish I could understand why so many people have a nearly manic desire to excuse, defend, explain or condone evil.
There was no DVR, no Netflix, and no binge-watching. We didn't even have a VCR till I was nearly out of high school.
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
Long ago when I went to college, campuses were about 70 percent male, and until 1970, it was still nearly 60 percent.
The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.
There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.
If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.
Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.
My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.
Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg.
I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.
I'm an intelligent man but I don't feel I articulate or get that across nearly enough, especially in social situations.
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
I want to see the farm piece passed, but the nearly a trillion dollars in SNAP spending for food stamps is way too much.
The Delorean was an inferior automobile, and nearly impossible for a person of normal size like myself to enter and exit.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
I didn't go to school that much! I was racing go karts and testing nearly every day, so school wasn't the first priority.
You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
I miss her in my bones. I was her big brother. I was supposed to protect her - I could not... It very nearly destroyed me.