Jessica Livingston Quotes
Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
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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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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
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The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.
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A woman can never have enough shoes.
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Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.
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When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.
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I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.
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There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal.
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Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
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Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.
