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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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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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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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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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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I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.
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I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.
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It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.
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Vegetarians are hotter then meat eaters.
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I probably write 10 things to every one that I want to use. It's easy for me to write something that's so poppy that it's wrong for me. If I was 22 years old... it's easy for me to write something that's less mature than I am or ought to be. I'm looking for something that acts my age.
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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.
