Nancy Giles Quotes
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An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.
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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in my left ear and never take it out.
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
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Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.
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One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.
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You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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At some point you may get fired, but don't worry you will learn from it.
