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Quotes by American Authors
"The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman."
"No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know."
"Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps."
"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."
"Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better."
"People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working."
"There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals."
"The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s."
"Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."
"Roger became a part of me, and when he went off the deep end and became a mad snake, I felt sorry for him."
"User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project."
"Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor."
"As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music."
"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need."
"If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease."
"The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own."
"My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself."
"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
"The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done."
"But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear."
"We can't flee from temptation in our own strength-but God will give us the strength we need, if we'll only seek it. A friend of mine says, “When the devil knocks, I just send Jesus to the door!"
"Throughout the world today there are people who are enduring cruelties and persecution because of their Christian faith. We must pray for them, and for ourselves, so that in our own dying hour God will give us grace to endure until the end, anticipating the certainty of His glory to come."
"And then I did one called High Rollers and that was a lot of fun."
"If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure."
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
"A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful."
"I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me."
"There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that."
"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."
"A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it."
"There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful."
"You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor."
"I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it."
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