Lucille Roybal-Allard Quotes
People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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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.
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.
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I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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A lot of people have the misconception that, as a Muslim woman, I am somehow against women wearing bikinis. No, I want women to feel comfortable and confident in whatever they wear.
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I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.
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I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.
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I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.
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My father, my mother, and then my father was always on top of me - 'Keep your nose clean. Do you love what you're doing?' 'Yes.' 'Then be aware, or you're going to lose it.'
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The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced... It’s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It’s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed or, worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.
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Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.
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Outlets are turning away from phone polling, which can be problematic. For example, we did a poll for NBC around the Ebola crisis; we provided results in 24 hours. Their traditional phone poll would have taken a week to turn around. We're showing people we can do high-quality work: we've proved that with the work we do with the media.
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People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.
