Ira Glass Quotes
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In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.
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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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Water for me is so essential, like swimming.
Nastassja Kinski -
When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
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When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his march?
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I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
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I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.
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When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities.
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Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.
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I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.
