Brenda Ueland Quotes
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.
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We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have helped forge the greatest country our world has ever known.
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What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.
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I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
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I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.
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We don't work with anyone.
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It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.
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People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
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I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.
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Left to face a hungry winter robbed of their hard-earned harvests, the people experienced their own warrior class not as protectors but ravagers.
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I love Sara Bareilles. She's just so clever. I wish I were her. She's so awesome.
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Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment.
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
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What America needs is a political revolution.
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This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both material and spiritual. Education means freedom, it means ideas, it means truth. Training is what you do to a pear tree when you pleach it and prune it to grow against a wall. Training is what you give an airline pilot or a computer operator or a barrister or a radio producer. Education is what you give children to enable them to be free from the prejudices and moral bankruptcies of their elders.
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It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
