Desiree Rogers Quotes
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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Every season, I'm like, 'Who knows if I'm going to get another job?'
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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
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In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.
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My ignorance is widespread.
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The Asian male has an interesting history as far as Western appropriation. At one point, we were completely sexless Chinamen building the railroads. Then, World War II came around, and it was like, Asian guys are coming after the white women. We became a menace for a second.
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I think digital is getting so much better. It's harder and harder to make the argument now for film. All things being equal, though, I still prefer to capture on film.
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I've learned that if I only put my mind to one thing that I can get tunnel vision. Then I may not be as open to other opportunities because I'm so focused on one thing. I think what's worked better for me personally is I have three goals every day: be nice, work hard and make friends. Those are my daily goals, and I feel like those are the things that create opportunity and creating connections that will then lead to other things that I may not have planned for otherwise.
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We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.
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God is with me. Jesus is near. The Spirit is greater than my fear.
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Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines.
