Letitia Wright Quotes
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
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Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
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How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.
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I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
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Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.
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Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.
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The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
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I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.
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Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.
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I realised that acting is not my god.
