Samira Wiley Quotes
It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
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If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
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I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.
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Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.
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A rule of thumb is that the best investors focus on losers, and the winners take care of themselves.
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It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.
