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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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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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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I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.
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A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick.
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I've done very well financially and sold a lot because I've had a multiple method of attack as a writer. That's a conscious strategy.
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I'm a tap dancer. Once you're a tap dancer, you're always a tap dancer. In 'After Midnight,' I get to dance, but I don't do a full tap number.
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Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.
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At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.
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I like a good pompadour.
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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
