Courtney B. Vance Quotes
The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.
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I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
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It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
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The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
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Life is about timing.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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The business of America is business.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
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The team at ASCAP is a genuine family, and I am proud to be part of an organization that is home to so many legendary songwriters and composers.
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For the black author, and even the ex-slave narrator, creativity has often lain with the lie - forging an identity, 'making' one, but 'lying' about one, too.
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True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
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I don't want to call myself a perfectionist, because perfection is imperfection.
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The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.
