Carol Tavris Quotes
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I need instant gratification.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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I was going to college to be a doctor.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.
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I believe in numbers and signs.
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The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
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As I was walking down the stairs, I kept thinking that the room felt like a movie theater with all your attention on this wall, so it seemed like a big challenge.
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We had longed for this success for many years, ... But better late than never.
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A radical is one who speaks the truth.
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I remember Pavarotti telling me, 'Oh, Neil, after seventy, the voice is going to go.' But I've been lucky. You almost have to learn how to sing all over again. You use your diaphragm more. You have to choose the notes and pace yourself.
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The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.
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God is in the truth.
