Adelaide Clemens Quotes
I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.
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The only thing I have learnt over the years is that if you enjoy your work and put in the best efforts, it will show. If you follow this process, things work out. But if you go chasing a formula, success will elude you.
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Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society.
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.
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Kleenex would have made a mint today.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.
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It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.
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What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.
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Whatever's missing in your relationship, including a marriage, is what you're not bringing to it.
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Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.
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Over the years, Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.
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The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
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The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.
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From my point of view, a completely covered woman has almost no chance of integrating herself in Germany.
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I never even went to Jekyll & Hyde's restaurant. I loved the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, though.
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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
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Life is full of little surprises.Time travel is full of big ones.
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I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.
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I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.
