Margot Lee Shetterly Quotes
You can't change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
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Now you're telling me You're not nostalgic Then give me another word for it You who are so good with words And at keeping things vague Because I need some of that vagueness now It's all come back too clearly Yes I loved you dearly And if you're offering me diamonds and rust I've already paid
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The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good.
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You can't change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
