Ada Leverson Quotes
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
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I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.
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When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.
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We opened the door for women rappers.
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I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
