Siddhartha Mukherjee Quotes
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.
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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.
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Indeed, there is no evidence to suggest innate morality. It is therefore important to create the conditions under which the expansion of our moral communities may become more likely.
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There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.
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In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.
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You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra.
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It's funny because TV wasn't something that I wanted to do. I wanted to do movies. I'd said a lot of no's to a lot of shows previously because I couldn't fathom being on a show for such a long time and only doing one thing.
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I know I don't want to do another single-camera show. It's so time-consuming. I did a couple of episodes of 'Whitney' as her mom, but I have been laying low. I love being with my kids and being a mom.
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I'm generally pretty happy about life.
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If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.
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I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?
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My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.
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Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture.
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The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.
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I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
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Inhaling uranium or plutonium is very dangerous and these kinds of radiation only hurt you when they're inside the body; they don't hurt you when they're outside.
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
