Gail Devers Quotes
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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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This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Without a doubt, priority No. 1 is always my family. Whether it's my children or my husband or even my girlfriends who are also my family, I put them first no matter what. And it makes it easy to then juggle everything else because it's never a question.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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I voted for Barack Obama largely on the basis of his temperament, which I thought superior. He is only 47 years old, but to me seemed older than that: a man of precocious aspect and judgment.
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I find male singers and what they sing about fascinating. It makes me realize how little we know about ourselves and how little I know about myself. It's interesting to see the male perspective.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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People have said, if you leave, you may never come back. Or they may not even let you leave. So this is always a cost you may have to pay. But I don’t want to restrict myself: When it happens, it happens. I have to deal with it, but not to prepare for it, because it is a kind of stupidity. If you prepare for it too much, you become a part of it.
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People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
Gail Devers
