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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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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Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.
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Failing to plan is planning to fail. Plan Each Day, Each Week, Each Semester. You can always change your plan, but only once you have one!
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I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.
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It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song, and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
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My God would never deliberately bring harm to anyone. But if it happens, if it simply happens due to wind and rain and weather and man's own mistakes, then God has promises to keep: Life continuing. An even richer, fuller, brighter ongoing life to compensate.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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God is in the truth.
