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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The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
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When the small bull grow horns, it must learn to defend itself...
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What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus.
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I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.
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After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner.
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So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.
