Donna Shalala Quotes
We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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I'm a real goof-ball deep down. It's always been my thing to make people like me.
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Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption.
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One can never do anything so beautiful as nature.
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I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
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I'm a shadow whisperer: I hide in the shadows. And I tend to avoid places where I might get photographed and end up with my picture in the press.
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We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.
