Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Quotes
I start my day by trying to be healthy and exercising and thinking about and reading about the challenges. I live the mission that way.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.
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My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
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I don't think there is a perfect athlete. But if I had to come close to picking someone who demonstrates all the traits that I feel an athlete should have, I would say the perfect athlete would be Tiger Woods. He has the ability, he's humble and he's very good at what he does.
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I had a small-town life - I worked at the local McDonald's for three years. I'm not sure why they kept me: I am something of a daydreamer and a dawdler, so they would only let me be the 'friendly voice' that greeted you when you entered the restaurant.
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As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
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I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.
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People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.
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That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.
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In proportion as slavery prevails in a State, the Government, however democratic in name, must be aristocratic in fact.
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People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
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I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It took me awhile to understand that it is not always about your acting.
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Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities.
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Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know that we can indulge ourselves in that fashion only so much. In the end, we read not for reading's sake, but to learn.
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I start my day by trying to be healthy and exercising and thinking about and reading about the challenges. I live the mission that way.
