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'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.
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I'm glad that people know my military service. But, like this nation, we are more than our military. And the rest of our story is the same as the rest of my story.
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The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.
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And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin.
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At the same time, I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations.
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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.'
