Adah Isaacs Menken Quotes
There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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I do not like violence.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it.
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
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By taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.
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I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.
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What feeds me destroys me.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.
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There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.
