Linda Chavez Quotes
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I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
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Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.
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I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.
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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.
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I'm very lucky.
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I know it's become an ongoing thing about whether videogames are art, and I think there's plenty of examples of things that use the form in a fascinating way. Things that are more surreal or artistic, like 'Katamari Damacy' or 'Vib-Ribbon.'
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It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work.
Nastassja Kinski -
I'm not a model; hence I don't see the reason to have a six-pack abs. I can pull off a tough and rugged look of a cop in 'Dhoom' series without taking my shirt off. Cops don't have to move around without a shirt to flaunt their machismo. What makes the character of a cop stand out is his attitude and not his six-pack abs.
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On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training runs, and then the runs themselves.
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If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.
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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.
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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
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The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
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I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.
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Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.
