Anita Borg Quotes
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in the beautiful parks.
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Society puts so much pressure on girls to look a certain way.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.
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Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
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She too had found the experience transforming. How could she not? A demon had been exorcised. Several. And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone.
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There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.
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It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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Iraq's invasion of Kuwait defies every principle for which the United Nations stands. If we let it succeed, no small country can ever feel safe again. The law of the jungle would take over from the rule of law.
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Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.
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When you have confidence, that's what becomes attractive to other people and makes them want to work with you and spend time with you.
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In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.
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Ever drive by one of those things on the highway which tells you how fast you're going? I don't even pay attention to them anymore because I found a similar gadget in my dashboard... Some people slow down at those things... I don't slow down. I speed up and set the high score.
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With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.
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The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place.
