Edna Ferber Quotes
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
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I've directed independent film.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I love anything to do with history.
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I like things simple.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
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Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.
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As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.
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It is the business of the teacher … to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
