Emma Walton Hamilton Quotes
Mom was never self-pitying. She was ferociously focused on making sure that everyone understood that she knew how fortunate she has been.
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My agent called me up and said, 'There is a tremendous female lead in the new 'Star Wars' film, and I think you're really going to like it.' The opportunity to play someone determined, who's trying to find her skills as a leader; to be in a fantasy movie; to be able to do a leading female role in a film of that scale - that's very, very rare.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
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I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.
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It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
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I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard.
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Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present moment, are not captured, they're not knocked over the head, it doesn't follow the old sorts of mechanisms.
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I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.
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Books such as 'The Rules' and 'He's Just Not That Into You' need to go out of the window.
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It's bad. It's damned bad.
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Eventually, I think cinematography for every culture is a way to explore different stories, different ways of also delivering a story.
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BP found itself in a difficult situation after the tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico. We did everything we could to support it. Britain is interested in this, isn't it? I think it is. The same is true of other areas.
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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.
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Put money in thy purse.
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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if life hasn't blessed you, you are jealous. Jealousy doesn't work that way. It's more like a tumor secretly growing inside us that gets bigger and bigger, beyond all reason. Even if you find out it's there, there's nothing you can do to stop it.
