Anna Pavlova Quotes
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
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No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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A diverse customer base helps insulate you; a few large accounts can leave you vulnerable to their whims.
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I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't sell.
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Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.
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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
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The same basic ingredients are found repeatably: fueled by initially well founded economic fundamentals, investors develop a self-fulfilling enthusiasm by an imitative process or crowd behavior that leads to an unsustainable accelerating overvaluation.
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Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
