Babe Didrikson Zaharias Quotes
The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
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Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.
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I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.
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Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.
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The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.
