Maria Semple Quotes
Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.
Maria Semple
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
Sam Worthington
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
Ian Anthony Dale
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If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.
Victoria Osteen
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
Cal Hubbard
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
Lael Brainard
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster
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The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.
John Muir
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I had a regular battle with the dunghill-cock.
Plautus
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Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is this perception that life was simpler back then. And with that perception goes that people were good or people were bad. You survived by your strengths or you perished by your weaknesses.
Kiefer Sutherland
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We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.
Gavin MacLeod
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For me, doing good work is important.
Anushka Shetty
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Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.
Maria Semple