Kerry Greenwood Quotes
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.
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The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
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There was a time when rival teams used a shift against me. They would put the second baseman on the shortstop's side of the bag, move the shortstop into the hole to his right, and have the third baseman hug the foul line. The idea was to build an infield wall against a known right-handed pull hitter.
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I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.
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I'm not a very organized person.
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Literature is no longer Necessary Teaching is left.
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It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
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For my daughter I would suffer through a thousand divorces, a million uncomfortable phone calls, a trillion emotionally fraught text messages.
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I didn't have any idea what politics was like. I was surprised at how difficult it is to get something done. In the private world, if I have an idea, I just do it.
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I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.
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Norbert Leo Butz is a master class in energy.
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The fact is that I loved being in England.
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As a musician myself, I wouldn't be confident if I received some other composers' song, because I choose to express myself through the music that I make.
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Become vision itself.
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Theatre tends to be more metaphorical and intense, as you're locked in one room and focused on one thing. Television can hop around, and you need to invest in its naturalistic reality more. But I love writing both, precisely because they're so different.
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Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' we mean only the ability of the individual to sacrifice himself for the whole, for his fellow men.
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I liked the Ballarat train as a child.
