L. Tom Perry Quotes
Go forward with new zeal and determination, and through your example shine the light of the gospel in this troubled world.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
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The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
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The truth is, if anyone saw my home life, I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done.
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I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme. And that’s what they end up knowing about it.
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Go forward with new zeal and determination, and through your example shine the light of the gospel in this troubled world.
