Maurice Greene Quotes
Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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For me, one of the big things I really worried about a lot was nuclear war growing up.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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You have more time to work in movies. My experience with movies is that you have more time to experiment with the character and camera angles and things like that.
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You can think as Einstein as much as you want, but when you come in contact with another person as a work unit of some kind, you have to think as one. You have to figure out all the things that you've studied and that your mind is telling you, and then you have to figure out how to make it work as one, or you have a broken down team.
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Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with.
