Valerie Plame Quotes

My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been there, and later, deeply disturbing stories of the CIA's involvement in torture. Still, I got to do work I thought was incredibly important and, many times, had fun doing it.

Valerie Plame

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• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Changed
  • Studio

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

  

  Idris Elba
  • Important
  • Me
  • Famous

• Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Work
  • Why
  • Model

• What is important is to win.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Important
  • Win

• As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Fun
  • Audience
  • Emotions

• How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Important
  • You
  • Feeling

• Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Humor

• Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Work
  • Question
  • End

• A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Funny
  • Would
  • Wearing

• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Work
  • Important
  • Government

• A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Work
  • Book
  • Myself

• I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I like to work hard and complete my films one after the other.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Like
  • Work Hard

• I don't like prolonged, highly expensive commissions, especially if they are chaired by judges. We seem to have overwhelming faith in judges.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Faith

• Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Rule
  • Long Time
  • Vengeance

• Crime is a job and it's boring. It's also unpleasant.

  

  Andrew Dominik
  • Job

• Many countries have food safety systems from farm to table. Everybody involved in the food supply is required to follow standard food safety procedures. You would think that everyone involved with food would not want people to get sick from it.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • People
  • Food
  • Sick

• My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been there, and later, deeply disturbing stories of the CIA's involvement in torture. Still, I got to do work I thought was incredibly important and, many times, had fun doing it.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Work
  • Important
  • Fun