Wendy Beckett (Sister Wendy) Quotes
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.
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I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works.
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The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.
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I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes.
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Don't get me wrong: I love a massive show with dancers and the works, and I love Zumba! But I just want there to be more people who just sing.
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When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.
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The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always produce the outcomes. Similar outcomes can occur for reasons other than the person's actions, which further complicates inferential judgment. Effects that arise independently of one's actions distort the influence of similar effects produced by the actions, but only on some occasions. Given a strong cognitive set to perceive regularities, even chance joint occurrences of events can be easily misjudged as genuine relationships of low contingent probability.
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We'll see what's out there. We've evaluated a lot of players. We'll see how it all works out here.
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Forgivness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.
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The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis.
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It's so strange how my life's changed; I know nothing about the people that I touch.
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The stuff that works best is driven by passion rather than dollars.
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Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.
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I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'
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Comics are in my blood. It's my strange addiction, and I love it.
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A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.
