Carol Thatcher Quotes
Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.
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Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.
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If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
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I would kiss you, had I the courage.
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Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
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I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.
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A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
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I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college.
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For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can.
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I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.
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I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink.
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
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Whatever job you take on, make yourself valuable, then indispensable.
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The importance of teachers in American education has never been a question, but recent research has established beyond doubt that the most important element of student achievement is the quality of the teacher. At the Corporation, we believe one of the most critical issues facing the country is the preparation of America's teachers, which is just not good enough. Creating a vision for change and sharing how to improve teacher preparation is something the Corporation is committed to. We are pleased to join forces with the Annenberg Foundation in pursuit of this goal.
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We like to say the Internet is the ultimate library. But libraries are libraries because people come together and fund them through taxes. Libraries actually exist, all over the country, so why is it such a reach to imagine and to someday build a public institution that has a digital aspect to it? Of course the problem is that libraries and other public services are being defunded and are under attack, so there's a bigger progressive struggle this plays into.
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Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.
