Virginia Satir Quotes
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I think there's a reason why some companies have such dismal records. It's not because they're clueless; it's because they systematically don't want to hire women.
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Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.
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If I'm, like, in a grocery store, I don't get recognized that much, but it's like, you know, when someone comes up to me and says, 'Hey, I'm a big 'Pushing Daisies' fan,' you just feel like, 'Oh, wow - you're the one who watched it. So nice to meet you.'
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Short fiction encourages experimentation, and it's fun to play with form and try experiments that may or may not work out.
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I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people.
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No one's fingerprints are exactly the same as anyone else's.
