Lea Michele Quotes
I always knew that I wanted to work and I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actor. I knew that every choice I made would help me get to that point. So the better the choices I made, the more of a chance I would have to get to where I wanted to be.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.
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The first dress that I wore in the Spice Girls, which everybody thought was a little black Gucci dress, was actually from Miss Selfridge - it wasn't a little black Gucci dress.
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Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.
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I don't complain.
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Sometimes you shoot for 40 or 50 hours for a one-hour show, and you have to make some very hard choices.
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I always knew that I wanted to work and I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actor. I knew that every choice I made would help me get to that point. So the better the choices I made, the more of a chance I would have to get to where I wanted to be.
