The Hollywood culture is so invasive, and I definitely wanted to be near it eventually. - Carmen Ejogo

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My inners are not organs. They're actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up like the movie 'Hugo,' and then just say, 'Act,' you know?

Carmen Ejogo

The Hollywood culture is so invasive, and I definitely wanted to be near it eventually.

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Do not let your light be dimmed by anybody who doesn't appreciate the dream that you're trying to pursue.

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I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didnt dissuade me.

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You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

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Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of. People like that share a willingness to be scared and to take chances.

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Leaving my first agent was both my best business decision and my worst business decision. It depends on how I want to look at my career because of opportunities that may have come had I stayed with him and because of the opportunities that did come because I had to fight harder for roles.

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My inners are not organs. They're actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up like the movie 'Hugo,' and then just say, 'Act,' you know?

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Patricia Field

It's obvious what's timeless and what is not timeless, but you need time to find that answer.

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Stephen Covey

If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.

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To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

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Aimee Bender

That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.

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