Ethel Watts Mumford Quotes
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
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Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
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When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.
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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
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For me, if something fits properly, it makes me feel good.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.
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I have a fear of heights, so falling off something very tall. But I've conquered a good amount of my fears. I guess most people would have the fear of getting up in front of a large audience of people and making a fool of themselves. I've gotten over that.
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If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a narrative point of view. But I wanted to write a novel about real life, and real life is a bit more nuanced than that.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.
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Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.
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It's amazing how small business owners figure out how to stretch a dollar as far as they possibly can.
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The doors of Opportunity are marked 'Push' and 'Pull'.
