George MacDonald Quotes
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.
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Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star.
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There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.
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I'm a storyteller – that's my chamber, that's my box. I'm always tryin' to give you the best story from our side of the table that you could really relate to quick. I understand where I wanna be at, but sometimes the production takes me where I need to go.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I have never gotten my nails done.
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I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do.
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I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
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Back when I was a senior in high school in Haughton, LA, I had a chance to go to LSU. Everyone I grew up with adored LSU, including my mom. But I chose to come to Mississippi State because I wanted to start a new tradition instead of perpetuating an established one.
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But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional.
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It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.
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Everything rises and falls on leadership.
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I am a pattern watcher. (p. 311)
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The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.
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To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
