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Monica Crowley Quotes

American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 19, 1968

Topics

Men American United Grounded Idea

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

Jessica Savitch

Debate Important The Most Important

Americans are grossly deficient in basic micronutrients and especially those phytochemicals that arm our immune system to fight cancer.

Fight Cancer System Basic Our Arm

I have always found it jarring to encounter people born and raised in, say, Switzerland, who are denied its citizenship and still considered Algerians or Turks.

Anand Giridharadas

People Citizenship Born Say Always

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.

Live Character Challenge Me Action

The skills you acquire can always be effectively redeployed. You will look back on setbacks and be grateful for the catalyst that came not a moment too soon.

Moment Grateful You Look Back Will

Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn't make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn't. Failed drama, it's all, 'That's not that compelling,' but failed comedy just lays there.

Failure Fear Together Laugh Comedy

Movies are boring. It's like watching paint dry. I did a little role in a movie, and it was eight lines. I was there for three days. It's just horrible. Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it's 18 hours of doing not a thing.

Doing Television Three Movies Boring

I am the owner of my prosthetic manufacturing business, BioDapt, which manufactures lower-limb prosthetics for sports.

Business Sports I Am Manufacturing

Each creative choice you make has 'x' many impacts on budgetary choices, which in turn have 'y' many impacts on your subsequent creative choices. They feed each other.

Miguel Sapochnik

Creative Choices You Choice Turn

I'm a left tackle. I like playing left tackle. That's my position. I think I can do it better than anybody.

Think Better I Can Position Playing

I'm willing to put my body on the line and stuff like that, just to get a taste of that greatness.

Greatness Body Line Taste Get Stuff

Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face.

Time People Me Face Think Long

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