Carla Gugino Quotes
What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
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You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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I can paint in jail.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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I've had to come through a lot and I've made a lot of different mistakes, but I realized that I never gave up. I wanted to so badly.
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I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.
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It appears dubious whether a field theory can account for the atomistic structure of matter and radiation as well as of quantum phenomena.
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What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.
