Sheryl Swoopes Quotes
I want to show kids, look where I came from. You can do it too if you believe and are willing to work hard.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.
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I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.
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I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.
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I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
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..I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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I want to show kids, look where I came from. You can do it too if you believe and are willing to work hard.
