Estelle Parsons Quotes
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look.
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I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.
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Negative politics have always been around.
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I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.
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The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.
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The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living freely, reading many books, going on frequent trips, cultivating minor eccentricities... but genuinely being a writer is difficult, because you have to write something that will convince both yourself and readers.
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Do you remember campaigns like 'Keep America beautiful'? What about 'Buckle up'? I believe we need an approach like this to attack obesity. Let's be a good industry that does 100% of what it possibly can - not grudgingly, but willingly.
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We need one America - one that includes housing, education, jobs, access to capital, and economic inclusion for every American. This will create a stronger America.
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At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.
