Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.
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Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
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I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late '90s, I was all about reruns of 'The Price Is Right.' I knew all the prices from the '70s.
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I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.
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You'll have many gay people on your side who just because they're gay, doesn't mean they're for gay marriage.
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In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.
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One of the reasons I was so proud to be born on April 3, is because I am such a big fan of yours.
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We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
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I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
