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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Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.
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I would say that the woman's ability to multi-task and to be maternal in instinct, it fosters a different approach to the character that makes sense as an actor.
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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
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Los Cabos has been an amalgam of many cultures that have been coming here. There have been beautiful Jesuit missions for example, in many places around this area. The towns are incredible. But there is a very strong Mexicanized culture here that exists because people from different parts of Mexico have come to live here.
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Television and newspapers show people's lives at a certain point. But novels tell you what happened after the riot, what happened when everybody went home.
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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
