Wilma Mankiller Quotes
People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!
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You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that's the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
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I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it.
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I'm trying to do big things. It doesn't matter whether it's on the field or off the field.
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The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive.
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If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home.
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Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.
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Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
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The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.
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We're still at a point where women [directors] aren't allowed to be mad visionaries. We have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we're responsible, that we can handle it, that we've got all our ducks in a row . . . most women who direct always come in on budget, always come in on schedule, and if they were wild and irresponsible it would not be put down to brilliance, but to a general flakiness.
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How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.
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People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.
