Constance Baker Motley Quotes
When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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The view of Earth is spectacular.
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My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.
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You can't do anything to a film post its release. I concentrate on working hard, giving the required inputs for the roles, having discussions with my directors and co-stars. It isn't possible to predict the fate of any film. I don't take failures to heart and successes to my head. These are part and parcel of this career.
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Whether I'm a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn't change, whether I'm with adults or with my friends.
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Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.
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The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.
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I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.
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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
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I've been in this business so long, it just doesn't faze me. I know what's going to happen before it happens.
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When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.
