Annie Leonard Quotes
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The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
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Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.
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I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.
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If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.
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There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.
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I always thought everybody else was better than me.
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I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.
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I want to be a soldier as my father was.
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I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song and you really open your heart, you can feel it. You can feel the message of it. Just a simple story.
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I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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Our thoughts and actions must in no way be determined by the approval or disapproval of our time, but by the binding obligation to a truth which we have recognized.
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There is no such thing as away. When you throw something away, it must go somewhere.
