Susan Wiggs Quotes

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

Susan Wiggs

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Like any other actor, my agent called me with an opportunity. It just so happens that the opportunity was the lead in 'Star Wars.'

John Boyega

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Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

Ani DiFranco

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After I finished school, I went to JJ College of Architecture and then to Harvard. I did my B.A. with a major in filmmaking.

Anand Mahindra

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It's a false choice to say we either have job safety or job growth. It's a false choice to suggest that the only way for a business to survive is to make sure workers have low wages and little or no benefits. There are ample models across this country where we've demonstrated the contrary.

Tom Perez

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Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.

Michelle Dockery

WorkGoodSongYouForgetNever

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Michael Moriarty

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I wish I could sing. I don't technically have a terrible voice, but it's certainly not as good as most of my friends. Whenever I hear myself on a record, it just reminds me I'm not a very good singer.

Moby

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There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

Derek Jeter

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I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.

Christopher McQuarrie

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Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are better than mediocre ones is smelling new public concerns over the horizon before they are picked up by polls - before the public even knows to call them 'issues' at all.

Rick Perlstein

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If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged.

Richard Price

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As every successful parent learns, one way to encourage good behavior, from room-cleaning to tooth-brushing, is to make it fun. Not surprisingly, the same principle applies to adults. Adults like to have fun, too.

Richard Thaler

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