Alvah Bessie Quotes
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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I really believe in the power of music.
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I love Amy Adams. She is wonderful. Evan Rachel Wood is a blast. I am also really excited about Ari Graynor from 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' and 'American Crime.' I think it is an exciting time for young women in this industry. I am excited to make my own path.
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It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
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I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.
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There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody's attention. People who were watching TV live were jumping up and down in their living rooms.
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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The year 1983 was crazy. People wanted to sell not only their investments... but also their companies.
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Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed that, somehow, an individual could choose whether or not s/he wanted to be a boy or a girl.
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When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.
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I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
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The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.
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When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.
