Leighton Paul Walsh (Walshy Fire) Quotes
I'm from Miami, and Diplo is from Fort Lauderdale. We grew up with a lot of Cuban and Haitian friends.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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My hunger is always there.
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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I didn't particularly change my name to Fonda because I knew who Fondas were. It's still going to remain a mystery. I keep it as a mystery. So, maybe one day I'll tell the story of how I changed my last name.
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My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating.
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I didn't see a lot of women who looked like me on TV when I was growing up.
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It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most. Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.
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With episodic, kind of one-hour directing, they always have guest directors come in, so they don't have the same person week after week. You get a break.
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I'm from Miami, and Diplo is from Fort Lauderdale. We grew up with a lot of Cuban and Haitian friends.
