Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
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I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager.
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Our kids are growing up with more privilege than we had; that's true for most of my friends in L.A. I don't know any actor who grew up with any particular privilege, so everyone wrestles with this. And I think, a lot of times, it's about being patient with your kids.
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Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.
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Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.
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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
