Edna Ferber Quotes
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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I told my wife, 'One woman, lots of toys!'
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In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
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In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.
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There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
