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 imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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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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Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
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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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I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.
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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.
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Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.
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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.
