Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
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When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.
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You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
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I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'
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And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.
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I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.
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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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In high school in the early Sixties, I dreamed of intellectual work by women that would match the highest male standards and set men on their ear. A lot of women have done a lot of academic work since then, but most of them fall short of that standard.
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Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see.
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Slapping a rattlesnake across the face with the back of your hand is safer than trying to fool Henry Aaron.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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When you spend your life in a creative mode all the time mindless leaf blowing can be a welcome break.
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Take the tone of the company you are in.
