Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!
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We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
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Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.
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Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.
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'The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.'
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It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
