Penelope Leach Quotes
Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.
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Fue adondo a mi me perdieron quw logre por fin encontrarme? Was it where they lost me that I finally found myself?
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For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.
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We're animals. A body is a body.
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I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.
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Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.
