Maude Adams Quotes
Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.
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What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.
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In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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It's a rare and special feeling to ride a racehorse.
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So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.
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I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.
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I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.
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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
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I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I'm from.
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If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.
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Intret amicitiae nomine tectus amor.
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I say the very things that make the greatest StirAn' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur.
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O pastoral heart of England! like a psalmOf green days telling with a quiet beat.
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The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
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Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.
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Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
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Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.
