Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
Quotes to Explore
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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I grew up seeing so many stereotypes on TV, and I didn't want to play that as well.
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My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.
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I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.
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Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up.
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Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera. I have had other co-stars who couldn't work that out, which made it a lot harder for me.
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A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
