Liya Kebede Quotes

I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

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• Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

  

  Naomi Watts
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• Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

  

  Mae Jemison
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• Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.

  

  Ma Long
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• In the education of the American people, I am Recess.

  

  Garry Marshall
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• I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.

  

  Sally Kellerman
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• Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
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• Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

  

  Patricia Richardson
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• When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.

  

  Hannah Simone
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• There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

  

  Sally Field
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• I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• Many Christians do not believe God sends tornadoes. But they do believe that God walks with His children through the storms, that He sends His people to help after the storms, and that with and through God, there is always hope.

  

  Adam Hamilton
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• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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• I think there's a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There's still a lot of subjects that I think people aren't entirely comfortable being honest about.

  

  Adam Mansbach
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• Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.

  

  Victor LaValle
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• I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.

  

  Nash Grier
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• War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

  

  Karl Marlantes
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• Many times, I have heard people saying that they don't like to work with their wife or husband, but to me, it is a plus. To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.

  

  Vincent Cassel
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• I got into one of the schools I applied to because of the essay I wrote about Holly Hunter's character in 'Broadcast News.' She's the only female producer on this news network, and she's really good at her job, but she allots time in her day to just sit at her desk and cry. And then she's just back to work. I find that really effective.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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• Before Medicare, nearly half of American seniors were forced to go without coverage because insurance companies were reluctant to insure them - making the chances of having health insurance as a senior the same as getting tails on a coin flip.

  

  John B. Larson
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• Television moves so fast. A series moves at such a rapid pace and things are changing, episode to episode, where you're going, "Wait, why am I doing this? This last episode, you told me I was doing this." You're shooting at a moving target.

  

  Mike Vogel
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• I had a strong conviction that there was something out there in the world that was wonderful.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
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• In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory.

  

  Anthony Daniels
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• I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

  

  Liya Kebede
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