Blanche Lincoln Quotes
We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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All I'm saying is that, you know, whether we're worth a billion, whether we're worth a million, whether we're worth $1,000, it's what's in your heart. You know, $100 a month from somebody or $50 a year for people who may be in a less economic bracket, that's as important to the Lord.
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Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.
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I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I admire British literature for its insistence on dealing with social class. It may have been an influence.
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From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters.
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It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.
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We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.
