Bertha Knight Landes Quotes
In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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You can never get enough of what you don't want.
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Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.
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In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
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I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
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I can never find the right bras.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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The real great news is, in the piracy capitals of the world, Netflix is winning. We are pushing down piracy in those markets by getting the access.
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When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
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I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
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To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.
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I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson.
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Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office then.
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The thing about shadows is that they're not all darkness. You need to have light to have shadows. So just look for it.
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In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.
