Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Quotes
To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
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'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.
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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
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I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.
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T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.
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NUMA is basically trying to preserve our maritime heritage by finding lost shipwrecks of historical significance before they are gone.
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The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
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No such thing as a Dixiecrat.
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To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice
