Nadia Comaneci Quotes
I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
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I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.
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I wanted to find something I was passionate about, something with the possibility of upward movement, and I wanted freedom. I need to be outside living life, not stuck in an office. I figured I could either be out selling condos in Miami, or I could move to L.A. and chase after that elusive actor's job.
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Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.
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Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
