Ali MacGraw Quotes
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I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look.
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The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.
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It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.
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Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.
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I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.
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I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life.
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Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.
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I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.
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I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite.
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I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.
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Am I going to be able to be the person I want to be in this relationship?
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If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.
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I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.
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It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.
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I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.
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My ex-husband happens to be one of the most gifted moviemakers. And what is so bizarre about working with someone like that? I guess it is bizarre to be good friends with your ex-husband.
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I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.
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I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot.
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I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.
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Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.
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My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder.
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I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.
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If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.
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Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.
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I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine.
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I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.
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You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.
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Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.
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In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned.
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I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.
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