Dorian Missick Quotes
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I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.
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Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
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I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
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My family is the most important thing to me because they're always there for me when times are down.
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I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
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It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'
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I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.
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I suppose the worst case scenario is that people will get to the point where they can't actually afford to make what they want to make creatively. The industry is collapsing.
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Most managers are just trying to survive. That's why a lot of smarter guys have been let go from Fortune 500 companies: because they came up with new ideas that no one would allow them to try.
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There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.
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Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.
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An Olympic gold medal is something that almost seems like a fantasy. Yes, of course I want it, since I was a little kid, before I even knew what the World Cup tour was.
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The yielding marble of her snowy breast.
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Thug: This is a stickup! Now come on. Your money or your life.
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I'd say that, 99 percent of the time at Nevada, I knew what the coverage was and where I was probably going before the ball was snapped. It makes it very easy when I only had to read one person and know that I was going from here to here, and if not, I'm checking it down.
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I come from nothing. When I got a chance to make some money, I was like, 'Man, I'm not ever going back.'
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The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much now. There's a focus, I think, on fewer books, with more pressure on each book to succeed. With that there comes, I think, a certain pressure towards shapeliness in fiction. Towards neatness. And I think writers feel that, and it can effect how they write.
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Even while we may at times disagree, as friends sometimes will, the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable and the commitment of the United States to the security of Israel is ironclad.
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As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet.
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I look for characters that speak to something in me.
