Gemma Ward Quotes
To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a mystery. Sometimes I say I don't believe in God and Jesus and Mary. I'm a bad Catholic because I miss mass once in a while and I grumble when, at confession, I get a heavy penance for something I couldn't help doing. But good or bad, I am a Catholic and I'll never be anything else. Of course, I didn't ask to be born Catholic, no more than I asked to be born American. But I'm glad it turned out that I'm both these things.
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Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.
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I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom.
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What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
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I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.
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To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.
