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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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
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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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We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? - Ridley Jones.
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I often feel trapped. I often feel like I'm trying to escape some trap, be it a way of thinking, a compulsion, or a way of life. I believe this persistent feeling comes from childhood traumas that stripped away my power. The effect, though, the resulting persistent desire to stretch out of confinement even when confinement is inevitable, is a gift.
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Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
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The nice thing about doing a pop opera - in the way that doing, say, 'Miss Saigon' or 'Les Miz' would be - is that, because the convention is set from the beginning that this is an opera and everything is sung, there is never that feeling of 'Why is this person bursting out into song?' because the whole thing is sung.
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When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.
