Anna Maria Chavez Quotes
As a little girl in Arizona, none of the women in my family had a cultural connection with Girl Scouts, but the opportunity resonated with my mother as a platform that would allow me to excel in school.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable fuels cost less at the pump. It is a growth fuel that fuels opportunities for millions of Americans.
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In Wisconsin, style-wise, it was all about bundling up, maybe wearing a hat and forgetting about your hair.
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The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
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I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'
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Seeing people decide to choose love instead of hate is phenomenal.
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All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany.
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As a little girl in Arizona, none of the women in my family had a cultural connection with Girl Scouts, but the opportunity resonated with my mother as a platform that would allow me to excel in school.
