Samantha Power Quotes
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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You are just your intelligence.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
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I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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You put high heels on and you change.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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I don't think people know how much time and effort truly goes into the game and goes into simply just scoring a touchdown. So when you get that opportunity, you should be able to be free and be relaxed from all the pressure that went into scoring that touchdown and have fun.
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I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
