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"There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation."
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"Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place."

"One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors."

"During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively."

"At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held it up, told him I was not a tourist and demanded a large discount."

"You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?"It will not."If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me."I, also M. Ratchett."What's wrong with my proposition?"Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said."

"Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns."

"Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding." Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding."

"Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."

"Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth."

"There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation."
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"Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children."

"Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men."

"You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting."

"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work."

"If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try."

"All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene."

"I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school."

"Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too."

"The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process."
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