Christopher Voss Quotes
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
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'This Is Not That Dawn' is remarkable in part for its careful and sensitive attention to women's lives - and also for its harsh critique of men and their failure to stop violence.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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I've traveled around the world.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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Since I started acting, I had to quit a lot of bad habits. I've tried to stop biting my nails, because people always look at your nails during auditions. Truth be told, I still have a 'cheat nail,' but I've been cheating less and less.
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Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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We doubt not the destiny of our country - that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.
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Πιθανὸς ἄγαν ὁ θῆλυς ὅρος ἐπινέμεταιταχύπορος· ἀλλὰ ταχύμορονγυναικογήρυτον ὄλλυται κλέος.
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If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
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I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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I am not alone. I am free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody, I don't have to be a first to anybody. I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
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Ethical axioms are founded and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
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The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly those in which thus far they have most distinguished themselves. This contains a warning against too precipitate conclusions about the intellectual life of woman.
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In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
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It took me a while to understand that I do have a voice, and I can use it to help people.
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Making music can sometimes make me a bit restless, so it's fun when I get to be expressive in another way.
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As an American, Baker was well treated, although some Chinese stereotype Americans as being fat and loud, while others characterize them as living in a bubble, unaware of other cultures. ... even when they dont mean it.
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I think it's time for people to stop being so serious about everything.
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My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.
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Artists, especially new artists and lesser known artists who did not have major backing, should find a more open environment to have their music heard and hopefully succeed.
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The most dangerous negotiation is the one you don't know you're in.
