Nina Bawden Quotes
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
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At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
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As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
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I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.
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You come out of a store and they give you seventy-five cents change or something, rather than drop it I would always place it in the community. Sometimes I'd flip it into the hat of a busker or give it to a homeless person. But what I most enjoyed was putting it on a windowsill or on a bench seat or somewhere where I knew that the community would get it.
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We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time.
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Anyone who says that writing for children or teens is easier than writing for adults has never tried it, because they are so much more critical than adults. You cannot get anything past them.
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Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.
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In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I keep it at bay. I don't believe that adults should impose their vision of the world on children, children are very much capable of forming their own visions. There's no need to force our own visions onto them.
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Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.
