William Bernbach Quotes
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.
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If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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Lord, kiss me once more, fill me with song Allah, kiss me once more that I may, that I mayWear my love like heaven Wear my love like Wear my love like heaven.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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My favourite thing is to do crossword puzzles. I do the 'New York Times' one every morning. Then I go to the barn to see my horse.
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The World is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.
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Governments everywhere have ministries dedicated to women's affairs. I know of only one with a Ministry for Women Empowerment: Indonesia. Charged with the 'realization of gender equality and justice' together with children's well-being, the ministry frames gender equality as a matter of justice.
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An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
