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“Ugly Betty' has been the most important thing I've ever done, easily. I was able to do more with one character than I can ever imagine doing again - Hilda was hilariously funny and emotionally deep... I really got to showcase what I could do with a character.”

Has Beens I Can Important Done Character Able Imagine Important Things Ugly Showcase Ugly Betty

Author:Ana Ortiz

“I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I'm putting out in the world knowing that one day my children will watch the work that I've done. I want to be able to stand by it.”

World Want Children Done Able Father Watches Knowing One Day My Children

Author:David Oyelowo

“Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.”

Looks Mean Done Able

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.”

Should Country Done Able Sides Pride Proud Standards Accounts Genuine Our Country Fallen Be Proud Flip

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.”

People Ifs Thinking Matter Done Able Roles Audience Disguise Chimpanzees

Author:Alexander Siddig

“Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise.”

Done Able Responsibility Sacrifice Buddhism Balance Discipline Enlightenment Sense Of Responsibility Power Of Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I've been blessed because every single role I've done has been an educated person. I've never done the stereotypical Latina, even though I have an accent - I've always been able to play educated people. That's a good thing!”

People Persons Has Beens Done Play Able Roles Blessed Good Things Educated Accents Latina Educated Person

Author:Roselyn Sanchez

“I just don't analyze what I do, because I'm afraid I won't be able to do it anymore. I'm sort of superstitious. And that's why I've never looked back at any movie I've done.”

Done Able Superstitious

Author:Andrew Niccol

“I believe that we are given strength and help from a power much larger than ourselves. I believe if I humble myself that this power will come through me, and help me create work that is bigger than I would have ever been able to have done alone.”

Ifs Believe Done Helping Able Given I Believe Bigger Humble Help Me

Author:Rebecca Wells

“We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.”

World Believe Done Reality Would Be Able Used I Believe Fantasy Fantasy Worlds Escape Reality

Author:Lynda Barry

“I usually balance school by doing online classes and regular classes - that has helped me a lot, and I'm able to get my schoolwork done while I'm traveling too.”

Done Able School Class Balance Online Schoolwork

Author:Jordyn Wieber

“To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.”

Way Want Should May Stills Done Able Forget Principles Rights Pride Demand Forgiveness My Friends Forgiving Refuse Quitting One Way Guarantees Scar Unspeakable Guarantees That

Author:Frederick Buechner

“Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.”

Done Dream Kids Able Guy Sports Careers Too Much One Thing Childhood Dad Handle Thrill Dreams Come True Boyhood Hull

Author:Bobby Hull

“What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.”

Ifs Long Said Done Able Dies Landscape Repeats Embarrassed Adequate Dinosaurs

Author:Werner Herzog

“I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.”

Done Able Suffering Speak My Own Blood Contrary

Author:Jim Dine

“English Canada must clearly understand that, whatever is said or done, Québec is, today and forever, a distinct society, that is free and able to assume [the control of] its destiny and its development.”

Said Done Today Able Destiny Forever Development Assuming Canada

Author:Robert Bourassa

“Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll up the work, and paper would just get destroyed. Once I looked at what I'd done, I realized I had made a painting, sort of by default.”

Years Firsts Made Done Able New York Painting Paper Six Moved Seven I Realized Destroyed Default

Author:David Salle

“What we have done though is consistently looked for additional opportunities to get stuff done. Wherever we see a possibility of increasing wages, creating more jobs, making sure that more people are able to access opportunity, we're gonna seize it.”

People Done Able Jobs Opportunity Stuff Possibility Creating Access Consistently Wages

Author:Barack Obama

“Second, I believe in human ingenuity – that when we decide on a task to be done, no matter how daunting it may seem at the beginning, we are able to unleash human ingenuity and human innovative capacity that was unknown, and takes us to a solution.”

Believe Humans May Matter Done Seems Able I Believe Solutions Capacity Tasks I Believe In Innovative Ingenuity

Author:Christiana Figueres

“I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies.”

World Years Has Beens Done Facts Able Left Force Break Air Terrible Essentials Ocean Army Obvious Fallen Guts Soviet Could Have Been Slaughter

Author:Winston Churchill

“Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected.”

Men Mean Reason Done Able Common Successful Activity Constitution Profit Harm

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.”

Knows Men Has Beens Art Done Use Seems Able Artist Born Known Accepting Ordinary Lifetime Rejects Afternoon Now And Then Great Art Great Artist Ordinary Man

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“I would give a lot to actually be able to glamour China into not wanting ivory. I can't even tell you how much I would give to be able to stop the illicit trade of Africa's wildlife, and to just look into the president of China's eyes and say, "You don't want this anymore, your country doesn't want this anymore," and have it be done. That would be great.”

Want Giving Looks I Can Country Done Would Be Eye Able President Trade China Glamour Wildlife Ivory

Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten

“As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more readily will he be able to remember his whole past, everything that he has ever thought or heard, seen or done, perceived or felt, the more completely in fact will he be able to reproduce his whole life. Universal remembrance of all its experiences, therefore, is the surest, most general, and most easily proved mark of a genius.”

Men Done Whole Facts Able Past Remember Felt Heard Genius Universal Mark Whole Life Remembrance Vary Organisation Endowment

Book:Sex & Character

Source: Sex & Character

“I think the real test is to plan something and be able to carry it out to the very end. Not that you're always enthusiastic; it's just that you have to get this thing out. It's not done with one's emotions; it's done with the head.”

Thinking Real Ends Done Able Emotion Plans Tests Enthusiasm Enthusiastic

Author:Richard Estes

“Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of a trance. And when a piece is done, I have little memory of how I wrote it, and zero confidence I'd ever be able to do it again.”

Writing Littles Done Able Memories Pieces Sitting Zero Sitting Down Trance Trickery

Author:John Hodgman

“God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.”

World Made Done Able Produce Ready Creator

Author:John Polkinghorne

“If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.”

Ifs Knows Done Able Differences Tree Paint Conviction Broads Strokes Needles Oaks

Author:T. Allen Lawson

“No music. No rituals. At home I write in my office or on the laptop in the kitchen where our puppy likes to sleep, and I love his company. But I've trained myself to be able to work anywhere, and I write on trains, planes, in automobiles (if I'm not the driver), airports, hotel rooms. I travel often. If I couldn't write wherever I was I would get little done. I also can write in short bursts. Fifteen minutes are enough to move a story forward.”

“You're damn right when you say I've shown people how to make a firebomb, I've done my time for my crimes, and I should be able to talk about them.”

People Should Done Able Crime Damn My Time

Author:Rod Coronado

“If you feel sincerely sorry on account of your sins, and believe that Christ is able and willing to forgive you, the work is done. You may trust with all the confidence of a child who confesses his fault, and casts himself into his father's arms. This is faith; a simple trust in the power and willingness of the Father to forgive, for the sake of what Christ the Son has done.”

Ifs Feels Believe May Children Done Able Father Christ Sin Simple Willing Son Arms Accounts Forgiving Faults Sorry Sake Casts Willingness Sincerely

Author:Samuel I. Prime

“It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because of the malignity of the times, that this good finally can be done by another more loved in heaven.”

Men Done Able Heaven Teach Duty Honor

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement.”

Years Wells Has Beens Done Able Achievement Lows Discrimination Agendas Academic Harsh Crow Breakdown Leftists Jim Crow Academic Achievement

Author:Walter E. Williams

“When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.”

Done Able Jobs Yankees New York Yankees Get It Done

Author:Joe Torre

“I respect Snoop even aside from the music, just as a man, and especially the way he still represents who he is, after being a pop star and an icon. He's done it successfully and has still been able to balance it.”

Men Way Stills Done Able Stars Balance Pops Icons Pop Stars

Author:Nipsey Hussle

“There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to pull someone into this hidden place inside of my thoughts. To make someone care for a person that has manifested from my dreams, to make them hate me for putting them in danger, and for them to ask to be taken on another journey with me when it is all said and done is why I write.”

World Writing Persons Said Done Feelings Dream Care Able Hate Asks Imagination Taken Greater Journey Danger Accomplishment My Thoughts Hate Me Said And Done

Author:Teresa Mummert

“I think any football is a guy that is able to one, be able to be humble and hungry off the field, but at the same time on the football field understand what they have to get done and be a little bit ferocious.”

Thinking Littles Done Able Guy Bits Fields Football Little Bit Humble Hungry Be Humble Football Field

Author:Ndamukong Suh

“I have a reputation in my professional work, negotiating contracts, where I've gone into deals where other people haven't closed the deal, and I've been able to get it done.”

People Done Able Deals Gone Havens Reputation Contracts Get It Done Negotiating Professional Work

Author:Keith Rothfus

“When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all.”

Want Done Able Chairs Someday Rocking Chairs

Author:Dolly Parton

“the more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning you can look at a chicken and it doesn't mean much, but once you have done some cooking you can see in that chicken a parade of things you will be able to create.”

Knows Looks Mean Done Happens Able Interesting Cooking Chickens Parades

Author:Julia Child

“My father couldn't speak English when he went to the first grade and I had to work in a factory over Christmas and summer vacations. And I think that's the American way and one of the things that excites me about this race is that pretty much everything I've done I've started at the bottom and been able to finish at the top.”

Thinking Way Firsts Done Able Father Speak Race Summer Bottom Grades Vacation Factories Speak English Summer Vacation

Author:George Pataki

“It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.”

Men Want Reason Done Able Jobs Order Ridiculous Decent Tackling

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.”

Done Able Life Is Great Things Things In Life

Author:Angela Thirkell

“I always say about acting: the audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves. So if you're able to give them an experience where they feel, 'Oh, my gosh, that's me, that's my story, they know!' then you've done your job.”

Ifs Knows Giving Feels Done Stories Able Jobs Actors Acting Audience Oh My Gosh

Author:Julianne Moore