In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting. - Illeana Douglas

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Your God is not our God! Your God loves your people and hates mine! He folds his strong protecting arms lovingly about the paleface and leads him by the hand as a father leads an infant son.

Illeana Douglas

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

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I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do.

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Women don't want to be listened to. They only want to be agreed with

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There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.

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I learned that a television show is not a collaboration. You give your 180 percent, but you do not question the show-runners. I remember doing a reading, and my part was kind of small that week, and I commented on it, and the next week, they cut me out of the show. So I learned that you never ask questions. In TV, you always assume you're going to be fired.

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I know in this day and age, when you meet men, they often want to be boys. They dress like boys. And it's very confusing. I can't offer any solution except to make a movie about it.

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Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

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God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.

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