George Akerlof Quotes

My Swedish grandmother was the daughter of a dairy farmer who lived near Hedemora. My Swedish grandfather worked as a clerk for the Swedish railways in the Stockholm station.

George Akerlof

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Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.

Jet Li

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If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next guy, have a goal and achieve it.

John Lee Hancock

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There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Robert Kazinsky

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We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

Robert Mugabe

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You do 'New Girl,' you play a character like Schmidt, you crave as an actor afterwards to just do something different.

Max Greenfield

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Being on a TV show is incredibly daunting.

Matthew Gray Gubler

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But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.

Michael Gruber

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I don't know why I am not offered woman-oriented films. Films like 'Satrangee Re' went house-full at some centres, but I didn't have much to do in the film. Everyone came up to me and said that I looked pretty but nothing beyond that.

Amruta Khanvilkar

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I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Stephen Sondheim

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The upside to doing commercials is you have to work in a lot of different genres and make stuff that you never thought you'd be making.

St. Lucia

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Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a house with a wife and two daughters is, without any doubt, going to go certifiably nuts.

Steve Schirripa

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I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

Mary McCarthy

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