Norman Lear Quotes
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I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.
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Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.
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Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
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To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.
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I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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All children should have equal opportunities.
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If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
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I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.
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There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
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A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick.
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You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.
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Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!
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I don't think when I started off that I was expecting to become so specialized, but what happened is that when my career started, I didn't pick my first film. I was picked to do it, and it happened to be a horror film.
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If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble...But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.
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Why don't they go ahead and change the name of the White House to the West House. They want to do away with the heritage of White Settlement and destroy the history of White Settlement.
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It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.
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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
