John Webster Quotes
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.
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My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
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I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.
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A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.
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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
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I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
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If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm.
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At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
