Mark Twain Quotes
We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
Quotes to Explore
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of DMV in the sky. No real culture. No real strategy. No real expectations for employees or customers. All of which is a shame.
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If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
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I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
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Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.
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My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.
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You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.
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Pay attention to the sound of words.
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There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.
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I intend to work until the day I die. I retired from feature-length films but not from animation. Self-indulgent animation. It's nice that I have the mini-theater in the museum. Most of the museum visitors attend the mini-theater screenings and we've never had a complaint about the quality of the films. I'd like to continue to make films that leave the audience satisfied, but I also think it's pointless unless I offer them the kind of animation they can't get anywhere else. They're fun to do. They're short so it's less stressful.
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We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
