Mary Harris Jones Quotes
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If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I'm always singing. My mom said ever since I could talk, I was singing.
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I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.
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I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.
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There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue.
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When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.
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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.
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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. That is possible for him who never argues and strives with men and facts, but in all experience retires upon himself, and looks for the ultimate cause of things in himself.
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Heart of my heart, we cannot die! Love triumphant in flower and tree, Every life that laughs at the sky Tells us nothing can cease to be: One, we are one with the song to-day, One with the clover that scents the world, One with the Unknown, far away, One with the stars, when earth grows old.
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Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.
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I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.
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I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?
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Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
