Maggie Siff Quotes
I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
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By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't think God would have created this whole big huge cosmos and just say there's only going to be life on Earth, and that's it.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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When given the choice, we’d all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we’ll all be sad later.
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Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.
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It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.
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Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.' But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you're sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
