M. E. W. Sherwood Quotes
Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted as current coin quick wit, appreciative tact, and a talent for talking.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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If I meant that I missed Bochy and Hunter, it's the guys I'd been joking around with most. Hunter is like my brother, and Bochy is like my dad. But at the end of the day, I missed all the guys.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.
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I suspect that the framers of the Bill of Rights have long since rolled over in their graves.
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I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
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'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.'
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Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.
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No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
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Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted as current coin quick wit, appreciative tact, and a talent for talking.
