Pearl S. Buck Quotes
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I love observing people. Each face tells so many stories. It lets me understand emotions, and that, in turn, helps me apply my skills as an actor.
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Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.
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I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we'd vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.
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I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!
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For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
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A chief of station is the head of all intelligence operations in any given country.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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I just like doing my job.
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The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
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The act of writing itself distracts the thoughts, and what is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed.
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When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
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I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
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I think the most important advice is, a person doesn't have to find out right away. It's not like their first attempt at finding a profession is the only one they're going to find. I might well have gone down other paths, and it still might have been okay. But if you find something that you love, and if it keeps deepening with each new experience, then just stay with it.
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There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful.
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Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.
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A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.
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There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I'm wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I'm gonna pay rent.
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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
