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Signed on to "The Girl You Want." After a few weeks of preproduction, she received a new version of the script, which she hated, and tried to get out of her contract. Touchstone Pictures threatened to sue her if she did, and so she completed the film. The film`s title was changed to Boys (1996) and sat on the shelf for more than a year. After it finally got its release, it was released in less than 100 theaters in North America and grossed less than five hundred thousand dollars. (1995)

- Winona Ryder

I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me.

- Bruce McCulloch

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

- Denis Diderot

Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.

- Abdul Matin

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.

- Alia Kaneshiro

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

- Andreu Guarneri

A child`s hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

- Marjorie Holmes