Geena Davis Quotes
When I was first starting out was also when I first started really paying attention to the Oscars and stuff like that. And I remember thinking, 'Wow, everything is great for women in Hollywood, because Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jessica Lange, Sally Field - they're all doing incredible work.'
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.
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If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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When you don't have much and you need to be at work, there's no such thing as being sick.
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The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.
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When I was first starting out was also when I first started really paying attention to the Oscars and stuff like that. And I remember thinking, 'Wow, everything is great for women in Hollywood, because Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jessica Lange, Sally Field - they're all doing incredible work.'
