Fay Godwin Quotes
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images.
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Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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I've never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If you're in a situation where you're supposed to react, you need to react.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.
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I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.
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I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either.
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They're building this new stadium for 23,000 people, which is too big for tennis. They've got their $90,000 boxes, which they can sell to people who don't care about money. But will there be room for kids? Will there be bleachers? You can't build tennis for fat cats. You have to interest new people.
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I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
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The common man need not ask because I am unavailable to him, but for a man who matches me in strength and purpose—there is no cost.
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Hatred, like straw, makes for a lumpy mattress.
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I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.
