Lynsey Addario Quotes
I started freelancing for the Associated Press. I had a great mentor there who sort of taught me everything.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.
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I have had lobbyists, and I have had some very good ones. They could do anything.
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I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end. I don't understand young actors who get off the turnip truck and land in Hollywood and get a great job. They do not realize how fortunate they are.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
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I started freelancing for the Associated Press. I had a great mentor there who sort of taught me everything.
