Erma Bombeck Quotes
Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.
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You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.
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I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.
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To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes, that's the biggest honor as an artist.
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No matter what people say, about what I did, about what I am like... They say you are not dedicated or hardworking. A lot of people say things about me, but they don't realise I have played 250 games. It's not like you just land up in the team, sit down and play 250 games. You can't survive like that in international cricket.
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I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
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I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand'.
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I was lucky to get into drama school and become a professional actor. No-one ever mentioned the colour of my skin. It's only when I came out of RADA - the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - that I suddenly realised people started to refer to me as a black actor.
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The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.
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I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.
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My mother was a big influence. She kept pushing me because I was very shy and inhibited. And schoolwork was very difficult for me because I couldn't concentrate. I was failing almost every subject. To this day, I'm not too good at reading a book. But I was the president of my high school comedy group, and they treated me like a king.
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This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.
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When the car was introduced in 1908, people could experience a brand new way to travel that was more efficient than a horse and buggy. Can you believe that cities tried to outlaw cars in the United States? Can you imagine driving a car for a year then having to go back to a horse and buggy?
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Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
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I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you're not an athlete.
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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
