Dana Fox Quotes
It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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I always try to show there's a way for the kids that feel like they're lowlives. In anything you want, you can be the greatest at it, even without school, if you want. Know your route.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
