Joan Ganz Cooney Quotes
My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness.
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From time to time, the irresponsible acts of the Cuban government remind us that this is far more than about the freedom of one country, but it really is about the stability and security of the region and the national security interests of the United States.
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Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.
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I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.
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Every one starts out being an atheist.
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My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.
