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I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation.

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• Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Speak
  • Grandmother

• Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Reality
  • Rap
  • Going

• Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Easy

• I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Control
  • Best

• I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Know

• The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Know
  • Tolerance

• My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fans

• But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Unhappy

• People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Me
  • Myself

• And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Night
  • City
  • Thought

• There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Me
  • Belief

• Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

  

  W. L. George
  • Know
  • Labor
  • Cats

• In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Stage
  • Now
  • London

• One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Saying
  • Starting

• All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Small
  • Easy

• I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Divided

• From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other American institution to obstruct a truthful apprehension of the Civil War and, thus, modern America's very origins.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Done
  • American
  • America

• It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • People
  • Different
  • Beautiful

• Sympathy is the surest destruction of selfishness. Children, like the grown person, grow the better for participation in the sufferings where their own only share is pity.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Children
  • Sympathy

• I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • School
  • Listening

• Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, 'Water, water everywhere - nor any drop to drink.'

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Water

• I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation.

  

  Christopher Guest