Maria das Gracas Silva Foster Quotes
I have two children. I gave up a lot for my career, but I'm very happy for it. I've done what I've always thought was best for me and my family.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
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I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.
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When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn't take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we'd still go and find the ones with personality.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I love women.
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
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We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
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Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I come from a heavy-lidded people. My family, you'll see pictures of them, and it's the same thing all the way back to Scotland.
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I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.
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The idea that I can touch anybody's life in any way is perfect.
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The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes.
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I have two children. I gave up a lot for my career, but I'm very happy for it. I've done what I've always thought was best for me and my family.
