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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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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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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The fact that I am constantly immersed in the act of legal writing and editing has made me a better and more efficient creative writer and editor. In the end, lawyers need to tell compelling stories when they write a brief or other legal argument. A successful lawyer understands that the judge is merely a person who is going to read that brief, which should articulate a compelling reason for the judge to rule in that lawyer's favor. In other words, a legal advocate needs to get the judge to care. That's not dissimilar to what a creative writer does.
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If you can visualize it, you can actualize it.
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I am convinced, based on more than three decades of studying NRMs through participant-observation and through interviews with both members and ex-members, that these movements have unleashed social and psychological forces of truly awesome power. These forces have wreaked havoc in many lives - in both adults and in children. It is these social and psychological influence processes that the social scientist has both the right and the duty to try to understand, regardless of whether such understanding will ultimately prove helpful or harmful to the cause of religious liberty. … the real sociological issue ought not to be whether brainwashing ever occurs but rather whether it occurs frequently enough to be considered an important social problem.
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There isn't a woman alive who doesn't have problems with her body. Including me!
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Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
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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.
