Stockard Channing (Susan Antonia Williams Stockard) Quotes
I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I'm an emotional person.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.
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I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
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Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.
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As long as Hamas needs the support it could conceivably get from the international community through the Palestinian Authority, it has an interest in playing nice with Fatah. And Fatah has an interest in playing nice with Hamas because it needs some source of legitimacy on the West Bank.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.
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We've all seen 'Jewing it up' performances. They are about as miserable to watch as as 'camping it up' performances when representing gays.
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In the kids' home I was in, there was very little change of staff. People stuck around, and they stuck around because they were being paid enough to stay there and raise their families. If you're not supporting the people looking after the kids, you're not supporting the kids, and you might as well chuck them all in the bin.
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Harry, talking about the doctor who came to the ward and then went away. 'That guy has a thing about potato chips and hot dogs. If God didn't want us to eat salt and fat, why did He make them taste so good?'
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You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.
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My philosophy is that you don't motivate players with speeches; you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in, and those are the guys that are competitive. You can not teach competitiveness.
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I definitely want to be involved but only while I think I can make a contribution and I make a difference.
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I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.
