Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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Tech is all about building human connections.
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The people in the United States are some of the most generous people in the world. We saw it in Haiti. We saw it with Katrina. When devastation strikes, American people want to step up.
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But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.
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I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.
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Songwriting is one thing that I have blessed to myself. It's a very personal thing for me, the business is very shared and you're constantly around people. So it just kinda happens when it happens and I write when I want to write and that's the way it's going to be or else I wouldn't even be doing this.
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It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
