Marjory Stoneman Douglas Quotes
I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.
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The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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Without a dog, no one will listen to your opinions for more than a few minutes without interrupting to tell you their opinions, which you won't find nearly as interesting.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.
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Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.
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I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
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Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
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I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impact and some lasting value? Is it worth it for me to spend two years of my middle-aged life on this?' They're my criteria, and I think that's led me to more urgent projects.
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Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.
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I lived a block and a half away from four cousins, and I had three siblings. The Jaeger home was a big, messy, happy family.
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So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.
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I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
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I acted my heart out.
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My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.
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I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
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As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.
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Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?
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Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.
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Every filmmaker imbues a movie with their own point of view.
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We will do precisely what the British nation has done all through its history when it had its back to the wall — turn round and fight for the things it believes in, and that is what I shall do.
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I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.
