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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
Harrison Ford
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I willingly devoted myself to my children and to my husband. I come from a broken home, and I decided a long time ago that I would put my family ahead of everything.
Andie MacDowell
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It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.


Sally Field
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I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.
Jewel
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I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.
Andrea Corr
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My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.
Vik Muniz
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I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Sally Field
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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.


Mahatma Gandhi
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It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.


Joseph Jarman
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
Nas
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I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.


Sacheen Littlefeather
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I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to fail, and that's the only way you can be unique. So when a director is confident enough in what they're doing, and they allow their actors to be brave and bring in stuff, the more likely it's going to work out okay.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.


Wes Borland
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I have a great foundation, a great training foundation. But it took me a long time to let the training go.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
Damon Albarn
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For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed.
Chris Evans
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Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.


Banks
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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
Bonnie Raitt
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What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.
Roscoe Mitchell
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If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.


Martin Seligman