Maude Adams Quotes
When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
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We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
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What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.
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My siblings were pretty far apart in age, so I sort of grew up as an only child.
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If you work out 20 minutes a day in some way, you're going to see changes.
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Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
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'Uasti was a good teacher,' he said. 'She made you look a little way into yourself, see what you could become.'
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And it's easy to stay grounded. The ground is very close. And we walk on it every day.
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The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons and daughters to fight in recent wars may derive from a failure to communicate effectively what is at stake in those wars and explain why the efforts are worthy of the risks, resources, and sacrifices necessary to sustain the strategy.
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Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.
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In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.
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I am planning the release of 2NE1's new album for after CL finishes her solo activities. 2NE1 will surely show you good work until the expiration of their contracts.
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When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
