Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes
When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.
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I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.
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I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.
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As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
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Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.
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Ever since I was young, if somebody needs help, you help them out.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.
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I don't listen to the radio.
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Most of my colleagues have research awards on the shelf. I have party invites.
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Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones' until I saw the bookshelf sagging under the burden of those other volumes.
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I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name - Steed's name.
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When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.
