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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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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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 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 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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In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.
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First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.
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Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is happening corrodes our core. It is not the Chicago we know and love.
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There is no such thing as away. When you throw something away, it must go somewhere.
