Elaine Sciolino Quotes
I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American.

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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.
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The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed company, are features of African American life that predate affirmative action and arise outside of its presence.
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No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
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I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American.