Ethel Watts Mumford Quotes
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.
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Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
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The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.
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There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
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Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.
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Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
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El árbol está solo, la nube está sola. Todo está solo cuando yo estoy solo.
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I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.
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It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything.
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I was trained classically, and that's something that I want to do, but I do want to say that right now it's a good market for female comedians, and I want to explore that right now. I really do want to do dramas and meatier roles, especially film.
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I was with my mum in the shops, a ladies boutique or something, and I was asked what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think you're supposed to say an ambulance man or a footballer or a soldier or something like that, and I told all my mother's friends that I wanted to be Minister for Health. She was mortified, needless to say.
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I expect if you are going to come out of the shadows, then you're going to want to have some type of hope in the future that you're going to improve your life and, yes, accomplish that American Dream.
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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.
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Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
