Judith McKenna Quotes
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.
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Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle.
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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'
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When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.
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Onboarding starts with satisfying the most basic of Maslow's psychological needs: belonging. New hires shouldn't arrive to an empty cube and be forced to forage through corridors searching for a computer and the bare necessities of office life. A new hire isn't a surprise visitor from out of town. Plan for their arrival.
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Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.
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For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form. … You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And I'd say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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I work as long as I need to work to do what I need to do.
