Red Barber Quotes
You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.
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The recession's high unemployment rates may have encouraged people to start sole proprietorships, but there are many obstacles in the way of growing a company to create jobs.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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I hate birthdays.
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I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.
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It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.
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No study is possible on the battlefield.
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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate And the Warder is Despair.
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Men will not forget that Pancho Villa was loyal to the cause of the people.
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'Vanitas vanitatum' has rung in the earsOf gentle and simple for thousands of years;The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scareEither simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.
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'Lord Arthur, may I present Lady Wednesday's Dawn?' Arthur bowed. He had already half-guessed the identity of their surprise guest. She had the hauteur that all the chief servants of the Trustees possessed. A kind of look that said, I am superior and you had better admit it.
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I think a lot of times people look at me and say, 'Well, we can't possibly hand a show over to her to run.' It seemed like executives would be worried about me controlling a room and having power, and I'd say, 'Oh, I can control a room. I can give an order like nobody's business.'
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If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.
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I fell in love with the land and with the very old fashioned idea of leaving a physical legacy for my children. A stunning place, with a magnificent forest of trees, and a magnificent river.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name. … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.
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You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.
