Laura Hillenbrand Quotes
And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously.
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I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
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Sometimes you will think you can't take it another day. But if you hang in there, one step at a time, you will be able to accomplish more than you ever imagine.
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
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Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.
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I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.
