William Reddington Hewlett Quotes
If I have to tell a guy he's got something to do, I consider myself a failure as a manager.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
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In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.
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Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.
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I've seen people go through divorces and stuff, crossroads that don't end well. Often.
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We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.
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Asians are nice people, but they burn a lot of shirts.
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If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.
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If I have to tell a guy he's got something to do, I consider myself a failure as a manager.
