Katharine Whitehorn Quotes
The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels.
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I am only about winning and getting better.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.
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With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.
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'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
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The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'
