Agnes Smedley Quotes

In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.

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• You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

  

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• It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

  

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• Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

  

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• The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.

  

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• Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.

  

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• I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

  

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• I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.

  

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• I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.

  

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• Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

  

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• I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'

  

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• I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

  

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• I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'

  

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• I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.

  

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• Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

  

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• If you're going to call yourself a musician, you have to go out and make music.

  

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• In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.

  

  Agnes Smedley
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