John Wooden Quotes
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
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I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
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I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.
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I don't want to make people cry - unless it's with happiness.
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Things have changed a lot since the earth was cooling and I was a teenage girl, but the basics of teenage bedrooms have remained the same. Every girl wants a place that they are proud to call their own and where they can express their own individuality.
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I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.
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The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.
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Earn the right to be proud and confident.
