Sandy Duncan Quotes
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.
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You can be a pretty face, but if you're not a nice person, it just doesn't work. I'm not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I'm all right. If you're a nice person, it definitely helps.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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I've been surprised at how much an unknown like myself can accomplish just by reaching out to people and pleading my case. Quotes for the book cover, reviews and interviews, readings and radio appearances - all this by simply moving ahead and making contact with folks I thought might enjoy the writing.
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I love not to be busy in a certain way.
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Cantrell breaks his chains with new CD. The Times (June 30, 2002).
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In all my years in business I can recall very few people I have wanted to fire for making mistakes.
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I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.
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I'm a fan of records. I'm a fan of listening to something cover to cover and not wanting to skip over anything.
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Our history is not our destiny.
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Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.
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The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
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One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about.
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When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.
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In music, I wanted to make sure I was innovating.
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Sleep is probably my favorite activity. I wrote this piece out of gratitude that I'm able to sleep well as an offering to people who don't.
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Public health research should help people have the most enjoyable and fulfilling lives they can have, which are also the healthiest lives they can have.
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If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.
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The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
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I'm not pert and perky anymore - when you're over 60, it's 'feisty.
