Imogen Poots Quotes
The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
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A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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I would never walk off any show.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
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I have disagreements with leadership, I have disagreements with the speaker, but I have those one-on-one.
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Focus very clearly on a few small things. The purpose of a business is to give someone something that they want. Have a product or service that's really excellent. [...] What can you offer that no one else can offer and will satisfy them at a higher level than what anyone else can?
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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.
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The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
