Roberta Flack Quotes
So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.
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As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
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I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.
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Every woman actress is somewhat vain, and I am, too. You really have to take care of yourself.
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No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is often our willingness to change our minds. Despite what might seem to be the saddest and most intractable situation, we have the power to believe that something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can happen.
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Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country.
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When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.
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So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.
