Kiersten White Quotes
I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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I am a citizen of the world.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
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Collaboration is a key part of the success of any organization, executed through a clearly defined vision and mission and based on transparency and constant communication.
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The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.
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Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.
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As a director, I do very few takes, because I feel like you hire the right actor and they'll do the job right. And the directors that I've worked with and had the best luck with - Jason and [ Steven] Soderbergh and the Coen brothers - all have been that kind of director.
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I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.
