Josh Pais Quotes
My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to say them.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.
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You have to be resilient.
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I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.
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A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
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How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
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Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it.
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My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.
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I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again.
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I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.
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What did I do to be a villain? ... Well, I mean you can't look at it that way. I didn't initiate it. It's a situation where I showed restraint, and I moved on from there.
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I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.
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Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them, envy them, steal from them.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
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I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.
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My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to say them.
