Elisabeth Rohm Quotes
I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me.
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There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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I get homesick.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.
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I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.
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Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality.
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I think you can do anything you put your mind to. I think your mind is the worst thing you can use as a reason to not do something.
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The most powerful political moments for me come when I feel like my actions are aligned with a certain truth. I can feel it. When I'm talking to a group and I'm saying something truthful, I can feel a power that comes out of those statements that is different than when I'm just being glib or clever.
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I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me.
