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I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'
You've got to earn it; you're not just handed anything in life. That's why no one starts out as a perfect master.
Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles.
At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.
The last person I'd date is some rich kid who's had everything handed to her on a plate. Give me a normal girl any day.
Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.
I don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that's how you get your hat handed to you.
Tillakaratne Dilshan is innovative and scores quickly, while Upul Tharanga is neat and well organised - and left handed.
I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.
I don't want anything handed to me, I want to work for everything I have... that's the way I've done everything in my life.
Of course, legends can call out whoever they want and do as they please, but they can't just show up and get handed matches.
With my tattoos, I've got my war side on my left side, being left handed, and a faith side on my right side, right with God.
My first audition for 'The Magicians' came up in conversation with a close friend who, right then, handed me the first book.
I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.
It is one thing to err on the side of caution. Equally, Test wins have to be earned. They are seldom handed to you on a plate.
Here's the reality: when Hillary Clinton won the nomination, the DNC handed her insufficient and substandard tools for success.
My goals for the next part of my life: Whatever I'm handed, I'm gonna make the most of it. If it's good for me, I'm gonna take it.
I kind of waited for opportunities to be handed to me. I think I was lazy, and when things didn't go right, I just said, 'Oh well.'
I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.
When I became an actor, it was disappointing to show up on set and be handed a coffee. You know. I'd pick up cables and get told off.
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
Barack Obama took office in the middle of a massive financial crisis. He was handed a bunch of messes all around the world and at home.
Greeks are notorious for their potions. I wouldn't say I've used Windex, but there are so many tricks that have been handed down to me.
Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.
I think a little tidbit I can give you is that I grew up with basically everything handed to me, except for my career. I worked for that.
My husband, Vivek Deora - he is very meticulous about cooking, and slowly and lovingly makes his family recipes, handed down generations.
I owe a lot to Rosshan, who literally plucked me from obscurity as a keyboard performer and handed me the background score of 'Notebook.'
When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.
I'm John the Fourth, so I think there's a lot of things in life that have been truly handed to me by the hard work and the pain of others.
Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.
I was blessed in the sense that I got handed so much early on in life. I got a lot of the things people go through their 20s and 30s craving.
At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper.
Life is all in the setup. A lot of people think I got the world handed to me, and I let them think exactly that whilst they handed me the world.
I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.
Farooque Sahab was so natural. It never seemed as if he was pretending to be a character that a scriptwriter or director had merely handed to him.
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
I think anything you do on your own, so to speak, I think, is worth more than something that is maybe looked upon as gifted to you or handed to you.
The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
In any inner city, there's not a lot of opportunities, and you really have to dig out and chase what you want to do, 'cos it's not handed to you, so.
'Showgirls' was a critical point in my life. I had my head handed to me. At 21 years old, I had to find my self-esteem again. It was a very hard time.
American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
Definitely when you get handed roles like Joel in 'The Last of Us,' that's something that will change your life, and I learned so much from that role.
By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card.
So much of myself is consumed with earning my way, doing it myself, and never feeling like things are being handed to you. Growing up that way was humbling.
First, I was doing the singing, and because I was Hulk Hogan's daughter, everyone was like, 'Oh, it's handed to her. Oh, she looks like a wrestler herself.'
I signed a dog collar. Someone gave me their dog - a live dog - and I signed its collar. When they handed me the dog, I didn't know what to do. That was weird.
I had to learn how to become a real actor, I had to suffer and be rejected and face that 100 times just like every actor. It wasn't like someone handed it to me.
I think the biggest thing is reminding myself how hard I worked for it,' Layne continues. 'It wasn't just handed to me. I trained so hard; I've been so committed.