Bel Kaufman Quotes
She hesitated, searching in her scant vocabulary of taken for granted health the precise word to convey the inchoate distress, the alien sense of something gone wrong.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.
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Knowing that anything can happen at any time, I made sure the people that I love know that.
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All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
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I sort of take cues from my grandparents.
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You start at SNL when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my SNL years.
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My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
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I want to have a record with Beyonce or Lady Gaga. They are both my inspirations. Especially Beyonce.
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I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.
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I look back at 'Saturday Night Live' and I think, some people didn't like me doing 'Weekend Update.' Who cares? A lot of people did. When you're reaching that many people, you're not going to have everybody like you.
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Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.
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For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.
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She hesitated, searching in her scant vocabulary of taken for granted health the precise word to convey the inchoate distress, the alien sense of something gone wrong.
