Gabrielle Union Quotes
I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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I do watch a lot of YouTube.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics. So there's more pressure on them to perform. I've still got a whole future ahead of me. I am not even the Olympic champ.
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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Oh, my gosh! Can you imagine learning boxing from Sylvester Stallone's character? I would die!
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Touring can be repetitive at times.
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You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.
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I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.
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I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.
