John Jakes Quotes
The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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If you're being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business, you just have to dial it back and breathe and know that you are protected.
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I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.
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There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
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Some day I shall be President.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.
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The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
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People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
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When I was 16, my dad took me to a DNA conference at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, California, and I was captivated by this way of looking at biology and by the discussions of bits of nucleic acid that could make us sick.
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Gold is money. Everything else is credit.
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The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
