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 write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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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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For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.
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In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though I had some successful shows and hit records. Now, I have to say, the '90s are the best decade of my life. I've done the best work and, in a funny way, I'm enjoying the most success... more than in the '70s.
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A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.
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It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.
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You can't have the legislative and executive branch working in a parallel universe...the partisanship that has gripped Washington has prevented us from dealing with the issues that this country needs to grapple with to determine its future.
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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.
