Joanne Woodward Quotes
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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
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If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.
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I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.
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Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.
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Privacy is rarely lost in one fell swoop. It is usually eroded over time, little bits dissolving almost imperceptibly until we finally begin to notice how much is gone.
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Definitely, when you get into something where bands are playing for 30,000 people, it's not like the post-punk, U.S. independent scene.
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Man United have shops all round the world. It's a big money spinner plus the fact that they change their strip every five minutes.
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There can be no one best way of organizing a business.
