Mary Schapiro Quotes
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.
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I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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You can't ignore the Asian and Hispanic populations in L.A. We can let audiences know independent film is not just about white men.
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I loved 'Matilda.' The kids are so brilliant and uninhibited. They were inspiring. Seeing them onstage, just going wild, reminded me of when I was that age. I was excited for them and completely taken by their innocence and hard work.
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I know I've got a lot of my mother in me.
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Our house was like a hotel. It was a loony-tunes household. If you got arrested in high school, everyone knew: 'Call Mrs. Evans; she'll bail you out.'
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It suits me to be in a series that takes ages to film.
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I work on weekends, but from home.
