Edward Urner Goodman Quotes
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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I never said half the things I said.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.
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Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
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There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.
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And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
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We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
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I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.
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My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, is every moment of it no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an unquestionable meaning of goodness with which I have the power to invest it.'
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But, as it is, this pied collectionbegs your indulgence - it's been spunfrom threads both sad and humoristic,themes popular or idealistic,products of carefree hours, of fun,of sleeplessness, faint inspirations,of powers unripe, or on the wane,of reason's icy intimations,and records of a heart in pain.
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It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.
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Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don't call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can't measure it. You know, paint it black.
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'Coriolanus' deals with the birth of democracy. And that has been fascinating because I've been talking about politics so much because of 'Borgen.' It's a nice bridge.
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I like making things. I don't like getting my picture taken.
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You're playing and you think everything is going fine. Then one thing goes wrong. And then another. And another. You try to fight back, but the harder you fight, the deeper you sink. Until you can't move... you can't breathe... because you're in over your head. Like quicksand.
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The tour life definitely puts strains on your body, not just because of the dancing but because of the fact that you are traveling into the wee hours of the day, getting up early, going to sound check - just the grueling process of it all.
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The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.
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I saw myself as a leader of the community, not a member. I had no idea what a messed-up perspective that was at the time.
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He who Serves his fellows is, of all his fellows, greatest
