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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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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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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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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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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A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.
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I honestly love any good chick flick, as long as it's a good movie or pretty funny. 'Love Actually' is a no-brainer.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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There's no map to human behaviour.
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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.
