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Leymah Gbowee Quotes

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality:
Birth: February 1, 1972

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You Country Serious Always Optimist

I have no desire to direct at all. I know how much pressure it is, and, trust me, it's so much easier and so much more fun to be an actor.

Trust Fun Me Pressure Desire Know

I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

Candle Comedy Drama Hold Any Versus

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Live Die You Choose Now Decide

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.

Jennifer Garner

Smile Beauty Mother Happiness Sunset

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

Andre Dubus III

Father Somewhere Sometime Expecting

I am humbled to have been asked by President-elect Trump to serve as Attorney General of the United States.

I Am Humbled United Serve Been

I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Work Yourself Think You Down Way

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

Grateful Imagination Thought Feel

I watched 'Mighty Ducks.' 'Slapshot' when I was a little older.

Mighty Little Older Ducks Watched

I'm very close to my family; they're the most important people to me.

Family People Me Important Most

If you look at anyone at the top of their profession, there has to be something a little bit different. Some of the top musicians are quirky aren't they, to say the least. You have to be driven, cold, hard and mentally tough as iron. My missus thinks I'm a bit weird.

Cold Tough Weird Musicians You Look

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

Good Thinking Look Others Deal

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