Candy Crowley Quotes
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The only power you have is the word no.
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
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Our favorite holding period is forever.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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I hate competition.
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You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
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I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.
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Comics have years to explain this stuff, and in a movie, you have to focus on one thing. So it's about kind of streamlining, I think. Some of the most successful origin films actually have a narrower focus.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.
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The harder I work, the luckier I get.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.
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Albanians, we tan well! I don't burn; I bake.
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These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.
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Nothing's better than a picnic.
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Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.
