Gena Showalter Quotes
I'll usually see a scene in my head, playing like a movie trailer. After I've written that scene, everything takes off from there.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
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I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
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The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.
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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
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I would like Albert Brooks to have received the Oscars for best actor, best director and best screenplay for 'Modern Romance.' I love that movie.
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'Clown' started as a fake trailer for a nonexistent movie.
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I still just sort of live my life the way that I was before. I don't know when I will feel that it's different.
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Genomics, Artificial Intelligence, and Deep Machine learning technologies are helping practitioners deliver better diagnosis and actually freeing up time for patient interaction.
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In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.
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I'll usually see a scene in my head, playing like a movie trailer. After I've written that scene, everything takes off from there.
