Fred Schneider Quotes
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
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I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
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I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.
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I don't think I've ever frightened myself before when writing, but there were areas where there was terror, as though I was looking into somewhere that I didn't know existed before, and it frightened me.
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Call us the future from your past.
