Ursula Burns Quotes
Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
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And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it.
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We all have to stand by our life's work as the true test of what we have done for the world.
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Being a good race car driver is one thing, but to take all the time commitments and all the pushing and pulling and learning when to say no - because you need to rest or focus on the things you need to do to make the car go fast - those are the hardest things to learn and the most distracting things to learn.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
