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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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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You are just your intelligence.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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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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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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Love, and do what you like.
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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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Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.
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For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
