Kirsten Gillibrand Quotes
It's a heavy feeling being in Washington. There are so many important issues at risk. You're in a fighting stance every day.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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I like to do Pilates.
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I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.
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I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.
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When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.
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I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.
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It's a heavy feeling being in Washington. There are so many important issues at risk. You're in a fighting stance every day.
