Gaines Adams Quotes
It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
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You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Congo, my country, has the largest forest in Africa, maybe the second-largest in the world. I was born in a forest area, and when I was growing up, I assisted my uncle, who was a poacher. That was good, because it grew my passion for protecting the forest and plants.
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If you make a fashion mistake, that's one that's going to resonate for a very long time.
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When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.
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I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately I was looking for something that was not tied to tradition.
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I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.
