Thomas A. Edison Quotes
I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.
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Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
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Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
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If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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When you use the same actors a lot, you get to know them and you realize that one movie can't explore all the talent that they have. You really have to give them several different kinds of roles, in completely different movies, to push them and to push yourself.
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I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.
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There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention.
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I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!
