John Steinbeck Quotes
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And surely such blessings do occur. Yet some of the diverse blessings we obtain as we are obedient to this commandment are significant but subtle.
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In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.
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In 'Me Before You,' the two characters popped into my head fully formed, which is really strange and unusual. Other books, I sit on them for two or three months. I have a whole routine: I buy a nice book; I hand-write all their characteristics. I put them through little tests just to see how they would react to things.
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When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
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With a movie, the die is cast. It is what it is. With TV, it's a living organism in a way. Fans can have input, with the whole social media thing, and they can track what fans are liking and not liking.
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I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.
