Delia Smith Quotes
I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.
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I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.
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You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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Just because people count you out and don't give you any love ... how about making them all fools?
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Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?
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I wouldn't say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it's a nice surprise.
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I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.
