Mariah Carey Quotes
I'm not a subscriber to walking into large corporate entities that I have to walk into and be waiting in line, because then I have to stand there.
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I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
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When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.
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I don't quite know why, but I am long-winded.
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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
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The first TV show I worked on was with the guys from 'Little Britian,' Matt Lucas and David Walliams, who did a show in 1995 I directed, 'Mash and Peas.'
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If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie.
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The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.
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'Did they program brattiness into you?''That’s a trait I developed for myself,' she said. 'Do you like it?'
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We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.
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You need a long-term coach to be able to win.
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Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.
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I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly that's something the president has said that we need to, as the economy recovers, have a plan in place for getting it down.
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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When I'm down or maybe when it's close in the match, I feel like I'm still in it. I don't feel like I'm letting down. Mentally, I'm still really, really tough.
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One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.
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The priesthood of God is a shield. It is a shield against the evils of the world. That shield needs to be kept clean; otherwise, our vision of our purpose and the dangers around us will be limited.
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Don't make your journey through life harder by placing rules on yourself like, 'I can't get married till I get promoted to your dream job.'
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I found out I wanted to be a filmmaker almost by accident after graduating from college in 2005.
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One of things I write about a lot is the role of women. An older friend of mine said that she feels like there's always a tension between wanting to be free and wanting to be cherished. I think that's one of the things that my whole book speaks to, wanting to break out of the confines of the roles that are prescribed for women and yet at the same time, not wanting to be totally free. You want to have intimate relationships. It's that bursting out of confinement.
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At least for me personally, I've always tried to do a really good job every day, with each interview, and treat each interview seriously, and make the person I'm speaking with feel comfortable, hopefully make it an ideal experience.
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I'm not a subscriber to walking into large corporate entities that I have to walk into and be waiting in line, because then I have to stand there.
