Allegra Goodman Quotes
Talent and intelligence, not to mention tireless hard work, got lab scientists through the door, but—this was the dirty secret—you needed luck.
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Actors make less than you think.
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
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'Latina' has become part of the Becky G family, and I feel very proud to say that.
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I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.
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I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.
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When I look back at my past mistakes, I realise that there were times when I wasn't myself, and that's why certain styles did not work well for me.
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I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.
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Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination.
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Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.
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You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward.
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Talent and intelligence, not to mention tireless hard work, got lab scientists through the door, but—this was the dirty secret—you needed luck.
