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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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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I feel like so much of why I sort of want to work in television is so that people know to come see me live.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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I will act now. For now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the evil become good. I am not evil. Tomorrow is the day when the weak become strong. I am not weak. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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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.
