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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We built a business on relationships, and that's what matters to us.
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Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still like to go there and see the vibrancy and colors of the neighborhood. I am also very influenced by the colors of my contemporary African and Japanese art collections.
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Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it.
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I thought 'The Hot Zone' was fascinating, mesmerizing. It's one of the things that got me interested in Ebola.
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If we were writing what the fans wanted to see, Betty and Jughead would be the most linear, monotonous narrative of all time.
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All of this is for fun anyway.
