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"I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line."


"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."


"Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite."


"Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things."


"If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so."


"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change."


"I wouldn't change Buffy for anything and I wouldn't change the course in which she has evolved but it is nice to be able to do something that is a little different."


"Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job."


"Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything."


"After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London."


"In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change."


"It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you."


"I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress."


"When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything."


"That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was."


"My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned."


"A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage."


"Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place."


"What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet."


"The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry."


"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."


"There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change."


"Stop fighting yourself and accept where you are in life. Let this time in your life motivate you to let go of all of the things that are holding you back."


"For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me."
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