Donna Mills Quotes
My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.
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My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.
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Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
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I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
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I like to work hard and complete my films one after the other.
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I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
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I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
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You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both.
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The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There's no time to change before we go out in the evening, so a dress should always look appropriate for day and night.
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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
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The thing about this business is that you always end up finding these amazing stories and these amazing people who make amazing films. I just want to work with good people and keep challenging myself with different kinds of characters.
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When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an editing room with all of your footage. It's like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what's not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work.
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Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans.
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All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.
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The most common reason new mothers return to work sooner than they'd like to is because they can't afford to go without their salaries any longer.
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I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties. I spent quite a bit of time in choirs growing up, and in the world-touring music group, Anuna. It's a sound with very rich texture, voices singing together.
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My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.
