Hedda Hopper Quotes
In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.
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Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
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Fighting Manny Pacquiao in the future - there's possibilities it could happen. But whatever happens in the future happens in the future.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.
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I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
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The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
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Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.
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What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
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I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
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Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can use it!
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In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.
