"I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label."

Control, Exercise

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"I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label."

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Ryan Stiles, American Actor

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"What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me in line."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"We don't do what we want to, we do what we are allowed to."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"When parameters are not set for man, there is always an unknown abuse."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control."

Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian

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"That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films."

Ted Demme, American Director

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"It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself."

Barbara Sher, American Businessman

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"For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo."

Nicholson Baker, American Novelist

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"Try to control your anger before it burns your life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Action is within your control, while Emotion is beyond your control!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

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Woman

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Woman

"Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it."

Marriage

"If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!"

People

"I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship."

Legal

"I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business."

Business

"I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life."

Life

"It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it."

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"I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work."

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"There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it."

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