Sandy Duncan Quotes
We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.
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Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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I can paint in jail.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.
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I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.
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When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.
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We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.
