C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes
Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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Decision – making is very scary for me.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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You don't have to be something to do something.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.
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A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them.
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I think the 'Lethal Weapon' movies contain my favorite performances. It sounds really crummy, I know, but although the work doesn't look hard, it's difficult to create 'effortless' on screen.
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My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer.
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I agree with you that should work together in a bipartisan fashion, and I believe this work product is a result of a hard-fought compromise.
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Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.
