Retta (Marietta Sangai Sirleaf) Quotes
When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt like: Are those the only jobs that large, black women have?
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.
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I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.
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My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.
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Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.
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Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.
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Hip-hop was started on groups.
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Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
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When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
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I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.
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I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.
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I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
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The nurse is the nightTo wake to, to die in: and the day I live,The world and its life are her dreams.
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O Caledonia! stern and wild,Meet nurse for a poetic child!Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,Land of the mountain and the flood!
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Believe me, nurse, the difficulty of beginning will be nothing to the difficulty of knowing how to stop. At least that's the way it is with me when I have to make a speech. Someone's got to catch hold of my coat-tails and pull me down by main force.
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My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations.
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My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.
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My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.
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Boston and America is really resilient.
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I know what I want, and I'm relentless in achieving what I want.
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When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt like: Are those the only jobs that large, black women have?
