Mara Wilson Quotes
The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
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As animation directors, you're the first one on the film; you're the last one off, and you get to learn from and touch every department throughout the whole journey. I don't know any other job in the world that's like that. I don't think live-action is like that. It's a very different sort of experience.
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The press follow me. I sue them. That's the deal.
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The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.
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In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.
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The issue of assault in the military is something that they've gone to great lengths to try to deal with - and have not entirely dealt with yet.
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The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it.
