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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On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.
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I think trying to maintain a classic pretty style is the way I like to go, like Margot Robbie's style.
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I want to make sure that when we're talking about health care, you want to make sure that women have the ability and access to health care so that they understand all the different options that are out there.
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I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.
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But there are two kinds of escape. There is the escape from something, motivated by fear; and the escape to something, motivated by longing. To confuse the second with the first is to confuse strength with weakness, courage with cowardice, love with fear. “All life,” said the wise witch of Edmonton, “is a wandering to find home,” and nothing will ever finally extinguish this conviction of the human heart.
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When a man is right he wants to get all that is coming to him for being right.
