Good Quotes
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I can put my legs behind my head, but that's pretty much it. An early agent said to me, 'If you can put your legs behind your head, let's say you're a contortionist!' So I got sent out for everything twisty and bendy. It's a good conversation starter.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads "Wisdom begins in wonder".
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It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
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I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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I studied mass media and brand management and was looking to do an MBA. When an acting offer came by, I thought I'll do one film so that it would look good on my CV. Films happened one after another, in different industries. I'm so glad things turned out the way they did.
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
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Water is my main state. If I time before I run - like, to digest, like, a good hour and a half or so to digest, I'll eat oatmeal. but I'm a vegetarian for the most part, so in general, I just eat grains and vegetables and fruit.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.
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Becoming a mother has turned my world upside down, but in a really good way - it's the best.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.
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You are only as good as the coach thinks you are.
