Celia Rees Quotes
You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less.
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I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.
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The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.
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I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.
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You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
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After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.
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Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.
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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
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Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as 'sustaining' leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.
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'It must be nice to think there is a true reality,' says Miss Callendar. 'I've always found reality a matter of great debate.'
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One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
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All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.
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All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light. There was a time when I got hot under the collar if the critics said I had nothing new to say. Now I realise that they had a point. My field is the self-evident. Everything I say is obvious, although I like to think that some of the obvious things I have said were not so obvious until I said them.
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It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.
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In my work, I just want to tell a story and help people go on a journey. I'm glad any fans that I do have, and I'm usually not aware of it until I get out there or read a message board. I want to thank everyone who follows my work.
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I don't think "I'm going to publish this as fiction" but I think "I'm going to tell this story to a friend" and then I start telling the story in my mind as the experience transpires as a way of pretending it's already happened.
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You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.
