Bernard Bailyn Quotes
Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.

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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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I actually studied literature at university, so I'm much more of an arts-based person, but I remember I actually did enjoy physics because you got to do weird experiments. I remember we did this thing with static where we all had to put our hands on this static ball to see that your hair would all stand on end.
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I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.
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I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.
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I am so fortunate to know people who have believed in me and been there for me in my very best and worst moments.
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Most of my writing work has been in film. I have done some TV, but most of it has been in film.
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Do not expect anything; there is more to be gained by earning it.
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It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!
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It was the ideal of living in Eretz Yisrael that took me out of my house, out of my country and caused me to travel from my place. I left my house; I repudiated my inheritance...Why? Because I wished to travel to the bosom of my mother, Eretz Yisrael.
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A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother's heart.
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Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.