Ethel Watts Mumford Quotes
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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I like to discover new things.
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Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.
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I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.
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I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.
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Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
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The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.
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The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. So a lot of what 'Rookie' is about is just showing that you can be both, and you can like whatever you want.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
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So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.
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I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.
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Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.
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We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we were hand- plucked to do this big budget film. So we were both very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
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The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
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You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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Better a live doggerel than a dead sonnet.
