Dee Dee Myers Quotes
The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I try to photobomb as much as possible.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors.
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A beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.
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I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all.
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When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.
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The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
