Adrienne Shelly Quotes
I've worked with a lot of directors who really don't have a sense of what the hell they want.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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At Oracle, silver medal is first loser.
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If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
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The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number of applications, and too many low-quality patents are being issued as a result.
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Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.
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Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.
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I really like the group tour better than going it alone. First of all, it kind of takes the pressure off a little. I'm not a naturally extroverted person. But I also like it because it brings in new fans. For example, someone who really loves Aprilynne Pike's books might pick up mine and vice versa.
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When I die, I'd like to come back as a cello.
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Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.
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I was living in Paris for, like, a year and a half, and I couldn't speak French, so it was just hard to get a baguette or a pastry or whatever. All the stores close at 6 o'clock, and they're not very into hospitality, so it's not a convenient city. It's so pretty, though, but I was raised in Tokyo, so it was hard to understand.
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So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.
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My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.
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I absolutely love London; it is one of my favourite cities in the world.
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Whether one believes in miracles or the miraculous has mostly to do with the presuppositions one brings to the subject.
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I've worked with a lot of directors who really don't have a sense of what the hell they want.
