C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes
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Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.
Salma Hayek -
We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.
Dana Delany -
I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
Samantha Morton -
It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
Camryn Manheim -
I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
Yvonne Strahovski -
The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
Mae Jemison
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
Calvin Klein -
I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.
G. Willow Wilson -
I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
Jack Nicholson -
I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
Pankaj Mishra -
Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
Randy Falco -
I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.
Daniel Baldwin
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Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.
Larry David -
To create a work of art is to create the world.
Wassily Kandinsky -
Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
Nadia Comaneci -
Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.
Lance Reddick -
I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.
Youssou N'Dour -
I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.
Aaron Tveit
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When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not.
Flip Wilson -
When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
Barry Levinson -
If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.
Ken Robinson -
It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.
Page Smith -
Expenditures rise to meet income.
C. Northcote Parkinson