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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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 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 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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On a blue island in a sky-wide water The wild orange trees continued to bloom and to bear, Long after the planter’s death.
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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
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I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.
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I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
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Faith, by definition, is a risk.
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I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.'
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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.
