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.

America Ferrera

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• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Dark
  • Magic
  • Mood

• 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.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Great
  • Today
  • Learning

• After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Want
  • Perfect
  • Whatever

• 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.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • People
  • Musician
  • Appreciate

• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • History
  • Game

• Your mind is what makes everything else work.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Everything

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Commit
  • Promises
  • Loyal

• I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Life
  • Own
  • Privacy

• 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.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Powerful
  • Media
  • Create

• 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.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
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  • Short

• 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.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Why
  • Change
  • Focus

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
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• I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

  

  Campbell Scott
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• I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Friend
  • Years
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• You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Me
  • Silence
  • Sword

• I got family members that's police officers. I don't got no problem if you a cop, as long as y'all doing y'all job, and y'all not harassing.

  

  Juice Wrld
  • Family
  • Job
  • Problem

• There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.

  

  Piers Morgan
  • Different
  • War
  • Serious

• I'm a happy man because whatever I'm doing, I do for myself and I do a little creating here and there for others, and they work out very well.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Myself

• Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Women
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  • Done

• 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.

  

  America Ferrera
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  • Different
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