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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I have come to know that it [death] is an important thing to keep in mind - not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die I can ever truly begin to live.
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You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
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I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.
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If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
