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Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.


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ELIZA COUPE I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.
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ELIJAH KELLEY Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not hav...
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STEVE LARGENT I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because peo...
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KATHRYN LASKY There are a lot of things that need to be taken care of over there that our tuition and things do no...
KATIE JONES I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I'...
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BILL WYMAN It is with great regret that I hereby resign my position. I have learned a lot and contribute much o...
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PABLO SANDOVAL So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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MIKA BRZEZINSKI My view on working with any government in the world is that there are things that you will agree upo...
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SAMUEL DASH And I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't belie...
WHOOPI GOLDBERG I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's ne...
FORTUNE FEIMSTER I have learned that you can communicate on a very deep level with any living form. That's why my gar...
CONNIE STEVENS It's funny - some producers ask me, 'Man, how do you work on a Bieber record? That would kil...
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SUZANNE SOMERS It's unusual to be successful at it that early in a career, ... A lot of people have (leadership PAC...
ERIK SMITH I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the b...
LAURA DONNELLY That was something that was fun to do. My whole thought, in general, is to put my own stamp on thing...
LEE ROCKER I think Charlize Theron is just as good when she is looking really pretty in a movie as when she gai...
DIANE KRUGER Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think i...
HUGH JACKMAN I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to do it...
JOANNE WOODWARD One of the very, very exciting things I have found here in L.A. is that no one talks to you about be...
PETER CAPALDI There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion o...
ERIC KANDEL We are very early, ... But we are on to something that is very exciting.
ANDREW WRIGHT I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you d...
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ASHTON KUTCHER ..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that ...
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ROB THOMAS Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.
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ELSA PERETTI I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
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