Dinah Manoff Quotes
I'd grown up in a production company, but discovering the importance of the work, I realized I had something to bring here.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
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Oh you tell me that there's danger to the land you call your ownAnd you watch them build the war machine right beside your homeAnd you tell me that you're ready to go marchin' to the warI know you're set for fighting, but what are you fighting for?
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...man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Although focusing is best pursued as a deliberate strategy over a period of time, it is also valuable as a kind of psychological first-aid, as useful to a distressed, 'stuck' person as a tourniquet to an accident victim.
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I'd grown up in a production company, but discovering the importance of the work, I realized I had something to bring here.
