Esther Hicks Quotes
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.
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If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.
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I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.
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I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.
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My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
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I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.
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A part-time working woman makes $1.10 for every dollar made by her male counterpart.
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It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will.
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I shall keep it the manuscript by me until the end of May for purposes of revision, and of adding malicious foot-notes.
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Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.
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It's not fun being left, doing hard work, doing all the laundry alone.
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A show is going to be good and fun to work on, if the research is interesting.
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Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and attempt to pass them off as my own with minor modifications.
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I was amazed at the rosy glow that can be around one when you're in a film that's done well.
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For me to train and get ready for racing, I can't just sit in the gym all the time and that's the way it is. Responsibility starts and stops with me. My main gig is grand prix driving, that's what I do and I need to keep that in the forefront of my mind.
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All of this is for fun anyway.
