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'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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I think lots of men are like that. We sort of get dressed by our girlfriends.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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I was in a number of school plays, one in particular, when I was 13 or 14, entitled 'Illusions.' It was put together by one of the teachers, and was about famous historical figures. I had to do the Martin Luther King 'I have a dream' speech, and some black women in the audience were clapping and crying and whooping.
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Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a 'pretty girl.' Honestly. When I read some of these scripts I'm sent, and they describe the heroine as 'incredibly beautiful,' I wonder why they sent it to me.
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I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice
