Loretta Lynn Quotes
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.
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I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.
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In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.
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I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.
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You either have to be first, best, or different.
