C. Vivian Stringer Quotes
I don't know who came up with this rivalry business. I have enough sense to know a rivalry is when you can't determine the outcome.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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I can't do chapped lips. If your lips are jacked up, Aquaphor is always a good go-to.
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If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.
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Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.
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There's not one type of stand-up, just like there's not one type of woman.
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I think she would be a very interesting patient. I'd recommend she come three times a week.
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My message to business leaders is clear: If you are looking to expand your business and boost the bottom line, there is no better place than Utah to do it.
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The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.
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But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no good, the date was wrong to open the film. I don't believe that. The audience is never wrong. Never.
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I don't know who came up with this rivalry business. I have enough sense to know a rivalry is when you can't determine the outcome.
