James Herriot Quotes
I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.
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Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins; I would love to work with Meryl Streep; I would love to work with DeNiro; I would love to work with Johnny Depp; I'd love to work with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow... I think she's amazing.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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I got married quite early. And then I had a son. I had a family. And this may be hard to believe, but I am a complete family kinda girl.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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I first began to tell tales to delight the world and make it wiser...
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People would ask me, 'what do you want to be when you're older?' and I'd be like, 'a singer', and they'd be like, 'what do you really want to be?' and I'd be like, 'oh, I really want to be a singer.'
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Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset.
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His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.
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I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.
