Hannah Whitall Smith Quotes
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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Learning should be engaging. Testing should not be the be all and end all. All students should have a broad curriculum that includes the arts and enrichment. Students should have opportunities to work in teams and engage in project-based learning. And student and family well-being should be front and center.
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Adulthood is hell.
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I got a way to get through to kids. I try to take that and use that to my advantage. If we work on the kids right now, I'm telling you, they'll be making less mistakes, the jails will be gettin' less full. It's all about what we do with the kids.
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Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
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Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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Pleasant, berries in the time of harvest; Also pleasant, wheat upon the stalk. Pleasant the sun moving in the firmament; Also pleasant the retaliators of outcries.
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I want to make people feel good about who they are regardless of who they are or where they come from or the color of their skin or what their family acts like or what they look like. I am all about acceptance of others and of yourself.
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If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.
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When such acting powerhouses take note of your work and express their appreciation, it is an overwhelming feeling. I could not believe it when Rishi ji tweeted. Then Amitji and Rekha ma'am sent handwritten letters, which I have read more than fifty times. 'Dangal' is a very special film for me, and these are my lifetime treasure.
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Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'
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A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray.
