Studs Terkel Quotes
Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
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It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
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It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!
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Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.
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And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
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Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
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It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.
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If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.
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Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.
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When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
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Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.
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Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can't change your physical appearance.
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Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm . . . At fifteen, I couldn't say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure.
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When I hear that Jennifer Lopez is such a role model for Latinas, on the one hand I respect her for her business sense and I respect her for her ambition. But she's in the entertainment world. She's done it on her looks and very specifically on her anatomy. Madonna is also considered a great businesswoman and so is Yoko Ono. I feel if I had a young daughter right now, I would feel a little discouraged if that was my daughter's primary role model for success and for young people, for Latinas and Latinos.
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Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
