Blythe Danner Quotes
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
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I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.
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I try to win every tournament.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.
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I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.
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With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.
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On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.
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Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'
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I don't give my advice unless it's asked for.
