Norman Lear Quotes
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Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
Larry Merchant
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
Damian Woetzel
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
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There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
Fay Wray
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The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.
Danica McKellar
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Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.
Maggie Shayne
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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
Ian Rankin
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To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.
Raghav Bahl
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham Lincoln
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I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.
Madeline Zima
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You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel.
Karin Slaughter
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
Garrison Keillor
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People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it.
David D. Burns
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There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?
Arjuna Ardagh
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Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.
Rajiv Ouseph
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I do the work just because I enjoy it on the day, working with the guys. For me, it's like going to play a game of baseball: you've got your teammates, you get to do something that's fun, hopefully, and whatever happens with that stuff is in the cosmos someplace.
William Petersen
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Power is the goal of religion in general.
Norman Lear
