Nancy Travis Quotes
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
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In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
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I didn't want to send anyone down there on secondhand information.
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Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.
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The public has an unusual relationship to the poet: It doesn't even know that he is there.
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I want to do a show about a woman who's juggling a career with a relationship.
