Essence Atkins Quotes
Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
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I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.
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I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
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The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.
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No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
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I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
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Just because you get a show and it gets on the air doesn't mean jack. It certainly means that you'll be considered for stuff, but you've got to fight and claw to get every job.
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I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are.
