Arnold Gesell Quotes
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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I like to accentuate the feminine form, so I'm a big fan of corsets. A woman's body is beautiful and should be shown off and celebrated. I love a simple and elegant dress that highlights my waist.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.
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The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
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Everybody in my family cooks, so growing up and being around it... if I was going to spend time with everybody, it was helping them in the kitchen.
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The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.
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People will always choose more money over more sex.
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I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.
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I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally I'm more comfortable with 'design research,' because I'm not an anthropologist by training.
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I had a very rainbow-colored childhood.
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Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.
