Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different.
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
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My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.
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I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it's not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there's no huge message or through line.
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Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And in the U.S., the market is never closed for more than three days. The only time the market was ever closed was 9/11. I think it may have been closed the whole week.
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'Menace II Society' itself was a groundbreaking film. It's definitely going to go in the vaults of classics in all of cinema. The Hughes Brothers created an incredible project. Just gave the world something a little different than what we had seen in previous films in that same genre.
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Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young.
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When you're out dancing with your friends, you think you're cool. But then you get in the ballroom, and it's totally different.
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Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
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There was an assistant professor I kind of had a crush on, but I was far too awkward and far too nervous to ever say anything.
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It's been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it's actually working out okay.
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I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within
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Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different.
