Angelina Jolie Quotes
I had a lovely experience once in Africa working with the U.N. when a president of a country met me about refugee issues and said ‘What do you do?’ I said ‘I‘m an actor.’ He replied ‘I heard that was a very difficult job and might not be the smartest job to do.’ It was lovely.Angelina Jolie
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
Walter Dean Myers -
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
G. Stanley Hall -
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
Warren Bennis -
Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
Indra Nooyi -
I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
Bear Grylls -
I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
Rachel Kushner -
Novels are longer than life.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
Harri Holkeri -
Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
Aaron Lazar
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We've seen the power of the PC, and we've seen that it's unstoppable.
Eckhard Pfeiffer -
It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
Zack Greinke -
A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.
Pat Buchanan -
I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
Victoria Pendleton -
My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.
M. Night Shyamalan
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Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.
Patch Adams -
Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly.
Corin Nemec -
When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You're happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director's chair.
Ben Affleck -
I had a lovely experience once in Africa working with the U.N. when a president of a country met me about refugee issues and said ‘What do you do?’ I said ‘I‘m an actor.’ He replied ‘I heard that was a very difficult job and might not be the smartest job to do.’ It was lovely.
Angelina Jolie