Katharine Graham Quotes
Dean Acheson was one of the very best and brightest of the men who ever came to Washington.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
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In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.
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Fifth Harmony as a group represents more confidence, more girl power, more unity. They're anthems, as opposed to confessional songwriting about one person's life when there are five individual women.
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One thing remaining, infallible, would be Enough.
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I don't regret leaving 'Homeland,' because I wanted to work with the Bhatts. The dates were clashing, and I had to make a choice.
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Wrestling - It isn't just a passion, it's my future.
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Dean Acheson was one of the very best and brightest of the men who ever came to Washington.
