Constance Baker Motley Quotes
Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
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When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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My parents are high school sweethearts.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.
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I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.
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Every role is a new form of surrender.
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I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
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As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.
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If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
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I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.
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I have made a few mistakes with my temper, I know. But I have learned from that.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants.
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So, I get a kick out of working with the media.
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I was not interested by cinema when I was young.
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Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
