Rebecca Stead Quotes
When something works for you, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope that it will work for someone else.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
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For skincare, I'm a Clean and Clear girl. Especially with the humidity in Georgia, Clean and Clear has been pretty good to me with all of the makeup we have to wear. My skin really responds to that product. I'm also a big fan of Kiehl's under-eye avocado cream.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges.
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History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
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I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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I'm still wearing Target and hand-me-downs.
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I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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I think Nixon says a lot about those times. It was possibly hard, in the '90s and early 2000s to understand the grip of fear that communism had on the country in the 1950s and 1960s - a fear Nixon rode like a endless great wave on the Pacific to high office. I'm sure, though there's no evidence of it, one of the things that rankled him down deep was that it was called McCarthyism and not Nixonism.
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A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.
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'Raining Diamonds' talks about knowing there's something better out there. You don't have to just settle.
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When something works for you, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope that it will work for someone else.
