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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I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.
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Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty.
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When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.
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It is most difficult to acquire the, how shall I say? the 'depth' of a subject in composition in silhouette.
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I was asked to lose weight by a network for a TV pilot. The conversation happens because you get a job, and your agent or manager calls, and they say, 'They are so excited about you. They just think there is no one better for this part, and they want you to look and feel your best. They really feel that that could include losing 15 or 20 pounds.'
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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
