Gabby Douglas Quotes
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group.
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The more time passes in your life, I think the greater you understand perspective. So I'm happy that I've had experiences that have reminded me that most exciting things might not feel so exciting later, and the most disappointing things might not be so disappointing later, either.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Love is a state of being.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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God is much greater than anything we can imagine.
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It's pretty simple, really: I love the X-Men. They were my favorite heroes when I was a kid. My dad and I collected X-Men comics together, and I know it would have made him proud to see me writing 'Uncanny X-Men.'
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
