Kate Brown Quotes
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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I would agree with that. But when I write lyrics, personally I don't care if the person who is listening to it understands what I'm saying or not; and I write them like that specifically. You know, I have my views; I don't feel the need to have people have the same views as me. So if they find the meaning in the songs and it's the same meaning as the one I intended then fine and dandy and if they don't, they don't.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.
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How did abortion and birth control impact the congressional race of Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle or the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? I don't know. But I think the so-called social issues were front and center in the minds of voters. These issues may indeed have lost the Republicans some elections.
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My father got a phone call to bring me in to meet with Spielberg for 'E.T.,' partially because they knew I was a physical kid, and I was known in the business somewhat as a stunt kid, and I could do all the bicycle riding.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
