Marilyn Tavenner Quotes
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.
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I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.
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With Scarlett Johansson, I always thought she was pretty, but then when I heard her sing, there was just something about her voice that made her really, really attractive to me. And I think she would be fun to hang out with.
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While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference.
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I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go, 'You know what, dude, no matter whether you're in a band just surviving or you're in a bus playing stadiums, one way or another, you're still among the rare breed of people that are actually getting paid to do it.'
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American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
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Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.
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To be honest, I don't think there's any other show like 'Doctor Who' at all.
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Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they're going to tell you I've been DJ Khaled my whole life.
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When I was growing up, I had more comedy albums than musical ones. George Carlin, Cheech and Chong, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor - those were my main men.
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Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.
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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.
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Coming from West Texas at the time that I did, I didn't know you could be an actor. It didn't seem like something that actually happened.
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I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.
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My mandate to myself since I've been involved in these movies was 'make every single movie different, so there's never 'X-Men' fatigue.'
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CMS has a track record of successfully overseeing the many contractors our programs depend on to function. Unfortunately, a subset of those contracts for HealthCare.gov have not met expectations.
