Judy Holliday Quotes
I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.
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If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.
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Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.
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I'm not the new Cameron Diaz. I'm not the new Keira Knightley, either. I don't know where these ideas come from. I'd rather be thought of as the one and only Laura Haddock. I'll happily settle for that.
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When I need guidance or just to kvetch or to bounce ideas off of people, I go to Gail Simone, who is very much kind of the den mother of all of us who are working comics.
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The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
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My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.
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Chad brings the bulk of the ideas to the table, and we all polish and rework the ideas he comes up with. He's such an accomplished songwriter. He wrote a song for ('American Idol' runner-up) Bo Bice, Enrique Iglesias - he's got that ear to be a musical chameleon and get into the zone of an artist. And he can't help but write a song you can hum along to. And that voice, you know it when you hear it.
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I put things on shuffle a lot, which is probably why I don't have a very good idea of genre.
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Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.
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The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression.
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I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.
