Esther Peterson (Esther Eggertsen Peterson) Quotes
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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I think you're certainly going to see much closer racing. But, no, these are very good teams in the IRL. I just can't stress how competitive they all are and how close it's going to be.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
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There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.
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Anybody can have this body if you do enough sit-ups and you just make a decision that 'Every day, I'm going to work out.' There are some days that I just don't feel like doing it, and I don't. But more often than not I get up and I get on the treadmill that I want to shoot and just do it. The first 20 minutes are the hardest.
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A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
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I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a wonderful franchise in cinema history, so I was definitely very driven at doing a great job and having my body look the way it should and just being a part of the creative process.
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I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
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Life is really hard for some people.
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Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.
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I am happy being what I am.
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Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.
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My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.
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I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.
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I didn't go in there and tell them I think you should move me, but I also understand the nature of this business.
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I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language.
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We haven't seen any loss of customers from any service interruptions. A lot of the problems were around a new data centre, and we believe a lot of those issues are resolved.
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I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
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I had to take false steps and go through hard times to come out to where I am now. I can't imagine living without acting. It's not easy, and I don't disrespect anyone who steps out of it after a certain point. Having a family and a house is cool. It's not a betrayal. But if you're going to be an actor, it has to be more than a passing interest.
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The longest suicide note in history.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Women's place is where they can do the most good.
