Retta (Marietta Sangai Sirleaf) Quotes
'Glee' is very easy to clown because I feel like it's just crumbling. 'Smash!' 'Smash' is the ultimate. I love it because I'm all about theater. I did plays in high school and college, and it totally brings me back to that feeling: how excited you get on opening night, how it sucks when you're not learning the dance moves.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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I have wandered over Europe, have rambled to Iceland, climbed the Alps, been for some years lodged among the marshes of Essex - yet nothing that I have seen has quenched in me the longing after the fresh air, and love of the wild scenery, of Dartmoor.
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I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.
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The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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When I'm wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing - she has the sexiest walk, a New York cool thing that throws you back.
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Comedy is a comfortable yet challenging place for me. I will always feel an inner pressure to do my best and to improve.
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People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
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I was aware that I was the first person of all time getting to direct a Wonder Woman film, and that was taken very seriously.
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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
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I went to college and did theatre. After that, I spent about three years in Seattle doing French theater and community theater and sorting it all out. Then I applied to graduate school and got accepted, so I started pursuing my master's in theatre at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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'Glee' is very easy to clown because I feel like it's just crumbling. 'Smash!' 'Smash' is the ultimate. I love it because I'm all about theater. I did plays in high school and college, and it totally brings me back to that feeling: how excited you get on opening night, how it sucks when you're not learning the dance moves.
