Sally Schneider Quotes
To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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What I've noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they're using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
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I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.
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If 'Scandal' were to run for the rest of my career and prevent me from doing anything else, I would sign that contract this moment.
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Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.
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If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.
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To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
