Daphne Bavelier Quotes
Everybody thought that screen time was bad for vision. Well, it happens that spending a lot of time reading on a computer is bad for your vision, but spending a lot of time playing first-person-shooter games is good for your vision.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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I think we need to be put back in touch with our childhood...to be reminded of what's important, like memories about people we loved, or things that happened to us that affected our lives, things we can laugh about and shed a few tears about... I think storytelling is a way of saying 'I love you. I love you enough to tell you something that means a great deal to me.'
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You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen.
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I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.
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I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.
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People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.
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Everybody thought that screen time was bad for vision. Well, it happens that spending a lot of time reading on a computer is bad for your vision, but spending a lot of time playing first-person-shooter games is good for your vision.
