America Ferrera Quotes
I work really long hours and work a lot and have done press tours and junkets, but there is nothing like a presidential campaign that I have experienced before... I think at one point we visited three different cities in one state in 12 hours. It's exhausting.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.
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I learned early on that extraordinary challenges lead to extraordinary victories.
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Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.
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In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that's left is their utility. War is not monstrous for making corpses of men so much as it is for making machines of them. And woe to those who have no use in war except to feed the machines.
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I work really long hours and work a lot and have done press tours and junkets, but there is nothing like a presidential campaign that I have experienced before... I think at one point we visited three different cities in one state in 12 hours. It's exhausting.
