Ethel Watts Mumford Quotes
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I remember when I did 'Mrityudand' there was this big hoo-ha, and people were asking me why I was doing an art movie, and I would just tell them that, 'You know, what's the big deal, it's a movie.' I'm so glad that's a thing of the past.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.
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I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.
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How would Jonathan Lethem have obtained such a stellar endorsement for 'The Fortress of Solitude' from Michael Chabon, if not for the years they spent ghostwriting 'MAD' magazine fold-ins together?
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The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
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Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.
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When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.
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Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.
