Esther Earl Quotes
if you haven't done something amazing, don't forget to try. the worst that can happen is you fail, and then you can just try again until you succeed. those words don't work on me now, but just try to remember them.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.
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Background updating is absolutely the future.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.
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The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing to do with the books. It's simply vulgar curiosity, and I won't have it.
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My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
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Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.
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I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
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'I agree with you. It is here a family affair. It is a poison that works in the blood - it is intimate - it is deep-seated. There is here, I think, hate and knowledge…'
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Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.
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Goals do not get stored in your voice message or email bin. They are not going to reach out from the world wide web and remind you they exist. As a result, our goals do not get the respect they deserve.
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What I have tried to show is that the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity - that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe.
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I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
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You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.
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The artist should always be the student.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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if you haven't done something amazing, don't forget to try. the worst that can happen is you fail, and then you can just try again until you succeed. those words don't work on me now, but just try to remember them.
