Nina Totenberg Quotes
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.
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Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.
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You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.
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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.
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I'm waiting for the alarm clock to go off and I'm going to wake up, ... I can't believe how well things are going. This is a dream come true.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!
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Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.
