Tina Weymouth Quotes
Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
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I was studying theater management, business stuff. About that time, I realized I really didn't like that, and it threw me into a panic attack a little bit. I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life.
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I do think 'All Is by My Side' is the type of film I'm the most happiest. You know, I'm figuring it out. I did just move to New York, so I have to pay my rent.
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.
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I am not someone who can be fooled by praise at all. In fact, I quickly sniff out people who are being fake with me. It doesn't go unnoticed with me.
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Pretty much all children are helpful to act with; they lack any guile when they act.
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I really want to do film, but I want to do the right film. The truth for me is that I'm really driven by stories. So there are stories I want to tell, and if it's a good story then I want to do it, whatever genre it is.
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It's much easier for a middle class Indian entrepreneur to start up a computer company than it is for an Indian company to build roads and transportation systems suitable for a population that is getting wealthier and demanding more basic services.
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I do think space hotels are probably in our future.
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Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.
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It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.'
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Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it.
