Alan Briskin Quotes
Collective wisdom depends on conversation and is most powerfully felt in the silences that arise within those conversations.
Alan Briskin
Quotes to Explore
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
Victoria Principal
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
Walter Anderson
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
Frances O'Grady
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
Ranbir Kapoor
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
Patrick deWitt
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
A. R. Ammons
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If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!
Dana Hill
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There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.
W. Bruce Cameron
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J. L. Austin; James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock eds. (1979) Philosophical Papers, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford.
J. L. Austin
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'I’ll do everything I can to help, I promise.''You always have,' Emily murmured. Except tell me the truth about anything.
M. K. Hobson
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
Tallulah Bankhead
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We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.
Margrethe II of Denmark
