Jesse Livermore Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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Even though, theoretically, being a composer and being a songwriter are the same thing, in my brain, they are completely different. When I am in my composing mode, I go into my studio and turn that part of my brain on like a faucet. And when I finish, I turn it off. But with songwriting, that process is much more elusive.
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The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.
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There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.
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I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.
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When a man is right he wants to get all that is coming to him for being right.
