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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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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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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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.
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The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.
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I pick the wrong kinds of guys, but they're so hot.
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I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages.
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To be English and long secretly for Prince Philip's heyday is, at least partly, to be wistful for a fairer, more meritocratic land where jobs were for life and social mobility was real.
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Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
