William Wilberforce Quotes
We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.
Quotes to Explore
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Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try to work with the system, and people do that, but chances are if you want your story in film with characters of color, you will have to make that movie yourself. Find a way to make it yourself. Not just screenwriters, but also producers.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.
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I don't marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
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The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.
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I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.
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I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.
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Save the Children is often told that its aims are impossible - that there has always been child suffering and there always will be. We know. It's impossible only if we make it so. It's impossible only if we refuse to attempt it.
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The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races.
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We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.
