Camilla Gibb Quotes
Writing made it tolerable to be human in a way nothing else ever had. It gave me a place to thrive, to exorcise, to cultivate some understanding of aspects of being human that were otherwise confounding.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
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I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.
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Just having the internet is a weird and dangerous thing because people become accustomed to knowing things when they want to know them and not having to work for it. I definitely see the value in not knowing everything and having mystery in life and mystery in people.
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
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Once I got started acting I loved it.
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Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.
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The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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One of the hardest things we must sometimes do is to be present to another person's pain without trying to fix it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person’s mystery and misery.
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To my friends pictured within.
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I'm going to do my very best to ensure that our jobs are all market-competitive.
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travesty and a strategic blunder of epic proportions on the part of the Defense Department.
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The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it's also producing more readers of an elevated level. So all in all, a good thing.
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Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.
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Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.
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Writing made it tolerable to be human in a way nothing else ever had. It gave me a place to thrive, to exorcise, to cultivate some understanding of aspects of being human that were otherwise confounding.
