Fei-Fei Li Quotes

The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, along with living up to your intense sense of responsibility and to be honest to yourself about what you want.

Fei-Fei Li

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My parents come from that immigrant culture that places a lot of emphasis on doing well scholastically. Being a comedian or an actor is such an American thing. The Iranian culture is not about dreaming. It's about taking over your father's business, falling into line.

Maz Jobrani

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When you are shooting traditional motion capture, it's a big footprint on set. There are, like, 16 cameras that are needed and constraints over the lighting.

John Knoll

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In 2007, I sold my first book, 'Grimspace.' It says it's SF on the spine. I believe it to be SF, though it's certainly written differently. I write in first person, present tense, and the protagonist is a woman with a woman's thoughts, feelings, and sexual desires.

Ann Aguirre

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I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

Stephen Hopkins

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Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.

Ron Fournier

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You date people to practice and to learn and to grow. But for me, everything was always a hang-up, or there was something there that I felt was a bit off.

Michael Landes

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If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.

Lisa Randall

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As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.

Dita Von Teese

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I've done a lot of television, and there's no rehearsal process - you have to come to the set with your guns blazing and with a point of view.

Bree Turner

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As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we'd planned.

Claire Messud

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It's not a problem to be surrounded by other writers if that's the craft that you're doing. I suppose if you get obsessed with the notion of being a writer more than the writing itself, that would be bad. But I live near really smart, thoughtful people who take writing very seriously, and I can meet them for breakfast and talk books.

Phil Klay

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Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

Peter Jackson

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