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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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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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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Sometimes you have to wear what you want.
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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
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Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.
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Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.
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Work begets work.
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Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.
