Corazon Aquino Quotes
I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.
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It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!
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Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.
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I know a lot of people weren't expecting 'BLACKSummers'Night' to be what it was, just like a lot of people weren't expecting 'Embrya' to be what it was. People will listen to what I've been a part of and see what I've done.
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I'm a perfectionist, so everything I put out needs to be, like, 100 percent. So when it comes to releasing things on my YouTube channel, I triple-quadruple check it before I post it because this has got to be ready for the amount of people who are going to be watching, for sure.
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During the campaign [Donald Trump] talked about reaching out to African- American voters in particular. He talked about inner cities in a way that did offend some people. Lot of Democrats. Some African- Americans of saying what have you got to lose.
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I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.
