Edith Widder Quotes
I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
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I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
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Creating the right advisory board for your startup can be the single most important step you take in building a new business.
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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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I think art is beautiful. It's decoration and adornment. But art is also a really important vessel for social change, and social change begins with thought. And so if you can find humor in something and take a moment to rethink it, you can take a step back and look at your values from a different angle. I think that's a really important way of carrying on with life. I think the best art for me is funny and the best comedy for me is art. Some of my favorite artists are comedians. Comedy is art, and art can be comedy, and the intersection is vital - at least for my own work.
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'All right,' she said. 'You’ve convinced me. Men are good for something, after all.'
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Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.
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I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.
