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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
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This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.
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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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The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
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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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The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world to the sole disposal of a magistrate, created and circumstanced, as would be a President of the United States.
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Many times, people attack the well-to-do people. They see an opportunity.
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Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.
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I look for characters that speak to something in me.
