Wanda Koop Quotes
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
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Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.
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I've had such an odd career.
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I am always fascinated by India.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
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If I cared about what you thought, I'd be writing for National Geographic or something.
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What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done. And it starts with that breath; it starts with getting out of my head and really just slowing the system down and being in a true present moment with each and every breath. That then allows me to be a more balanced and focused individual onstage.
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What I had to learn was, that I'm only responsible for my perception of things. The world's not out to get you. That's not the way it works.
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There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.
