Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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I've been things and seen places.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I get bored easily.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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A lot of what acting is paying attention.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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It gets slightly daunting if you're watching the telly and everybody's gorgeous. It's just so rubbish. And I'm grateful that it's not so much anymore - it's great to see.
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Our most important job in Congress is to provide for our national defense, and therefore, every year, Congress allocates funds and determines defense priorities in a bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA.
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I always save a huge book for a flight, because then you read it at both airports and on the plane and by the time you get home you're a quarter of the way through and it doesn't feel so unmanageable any more.
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I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.
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Every actor is a model to a certain extent, since they have to do so much press.
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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
