James Surowiecki Quotes
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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Politics is a good thing!
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.
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Fame is a four letter word and like tape, or zoom, or face, or pain, or life, or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.
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The final verdict will not be in the obituaries. The final verdict will be when the PhD students dig out the archives, read my old papers, assess what my enemies have said, sift the evidence and seek the truth. I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose
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My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.
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Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
