Emilia Wickstead Quotes
If I'd really known how hard I was going to have to work behind the scenes to have any kind of business, I think I would have stopped.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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Something is very wrong when our federal and state governments have a high tolerance for the unrestricted distribution of weapons of mass destruction, and it would be wrong to let this deadly form of neglect continue to facilitate bloodshed across America.
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Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.
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I could never understand, when I watch romantic comedies, the notion that for some reason, unattractive or heavy people don't fall in love. If they do, it's in some odd, kooky, roundabout way - and it's not. It's exactly the same.
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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.
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If I'd really known how hard I was going to have to work behind the scenes to have any kind of business, I think I would have stopped.
