W. Averell Harriman Quotes
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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I'm very good at making mistakes, so I realized that I should embrace mistakes and learn from them.
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
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Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?
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I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.
