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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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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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've always said that I didn't want to be given a job because I was a female, I wanted it because I was the most well-qualified person for the job. And making certain that companies are going to move forward in that vein, that is what women want.
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Adele is another problem. I never said that she was fat. I said that she was a little roundish; a little roundish is not fat. But for such a beautiful girl... after that she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad.
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When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
Gail Devers
