Mary Pilon Quotes
If workplaces that enlist happiness consultants really care about worker satisfaction, why not offer better maternity and paternity policies? Daycare options? They could advise managers to stop calling workers to come in on weekends or expect them to answer emails late on weeknights.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.
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In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really doesn't deserve to be there. The problem, even if you're just being selfish from an economic standpoint, is we're not producing the talent we need.
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Writing and performing are to me what water and movement are to sharks.
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Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
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We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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If workplaces that enlist happiness consultants really care about worker satisfaction, why not offer better maternity and paternity policies? Daycare options? They could advise managers to stop calling workers to come in on weekends or expect them to answer emails late on weeknights.
