Marjory Stoneman Douglas Quotes
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
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As much as I thought the end of 'Friday Night Lights' was a really great ending, I was one of those people who wanted to make it into a movie. Even though it ultimately didn't work to do that movie, I did work with some of the other writers and by myself writing a script for that.
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I love to watch my movies. You have no idea...I would watch my movies like over a hundred times.
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You have to stand up for some things in this world.
