Wellington Mara Quotes
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.
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So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.
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Thank you... adjustable baseball caps with no logo on the front and mesh netting in the back, for being a great way to say, 'Hi, I'm over 80 years old.'
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Always I will take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I will persist until I succeed.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.
