E. Merrill Root Quotes
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When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.
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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model.
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She was my closest friend. She was the one person, other than my husband, I could turn to in a crisis. There was a lot of resentment when I first came to town. But Patsy was strong-willed and always taking up for me. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I would have lasted.
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America Online, of course, is a master of the hard sell, from stuffing mailboxes with free trial offers to forcing subscribers to click through ads before they can get their e-mail.
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Every country wants to protect its athletes because it's ultimately Germany vs. Spain, America vs. China; sports are an extension of the government because of national pride.
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Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.
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The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.
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I like pushing the envelope. I like pushing myself and the audience, whether it's a TV show or live. I like to throw people over the edge of the cliff and scare the wits out of them, but then pull them back and make them safe.
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I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.
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Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
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I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.
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That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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I love you, with no beginning, no end. I love you as you have become an extra necessary organ in my body. I love you as only a girl could love a boy. Without fear. Without expectations. Wanting nothing in return, except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart, that I may always know your strength, your eyes, and your spirit that gave me freedom and let me fly.
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I fire very little because I try to be very careful when I select people. If you know how to select, you don't fire often.
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It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit.
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Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select.
