Dorothy Canfield Fisher Quotes
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.
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There are people who think negatively, and there have been people who react negatively towards BTS music.
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People who have never had an ideal may hope to find one; they are in a better state than the people who allow the circumstances of life to break their ideal. To fall beneath one's ideal is to lose one's track in life; then confusion rises in the mind, and that light which one should hold high becomes covered and obscured, so that it cannot shine out to light one's path.
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There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.
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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
