Sue Mengers Quotes
A powerful studio boss doesn't want to be bested by a woman, even in chess. And a successful agent steps on a lot of toes. You lose actors jobs so you can get them for your own clients.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
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Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.
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I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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I had a sense when I took the job that the 1976-77 Trail Blazers could be very good. We had made a lot of positive roster changes, but it wasn't until I had the team in training camp that I realized that this team could be special. Midway through that season, I felt we had a chance to win it all.
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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Sometimes it may seem to us that there is no purpose in our lives, that going day after day for years to this office or that school or factory is nothing else but waste and weariness. But it may be that God has sent us there because but for us, Christ would not be there. If our being there means that Christ is there, that alone makes it worthwhile.
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A powerful studio boss doesn't want to be bested by a woman, even in chess. And a successful agent steps on a lot of toes. You lose actors jobs so you can get them for your own clients.
