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 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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'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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Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.
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The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly.
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Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!
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Being Irish means you belong to the clan. It's what you feel. They feel Irish.
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I've been lucky enough to, for the most part, surround myself with a lot of people who are more talented than me and who I can learn from, and it makes me up my game.
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'You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.' - Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991
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When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker.
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There's something amazing that happens when you don't have to think about how you look so much.
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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.
