Donna J. Nelson Quotes
I say that, you know, it's a lifetime goal trying to teach organic chemistry, to make it easy, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm ever going to achieve it in my lifetime.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.
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In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.
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Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs.
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I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we (humans) do.
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Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.
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Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
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I've played a lot of bad guys, and I'm pretty good at leaving my work at the office. And I look at acting as having a certain sort of therapeutic nature to it.
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I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
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All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.
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I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop.
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I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.
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And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.
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I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff's opening act.
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I say that, you know, it's a lifetime goal trying to teach organic chemistry, to make it easy, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm ever going to achieve it in my lifetime.
