Wendy Beckett (Sister Wendy) Quotes
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.
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I'm extremely superstitious.
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I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
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I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
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Actually, lots of women, when they're pregnant, feel like steel. They feel incredible.
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You know, OK, I made a few jokes - and they killed 3000 Americans. Fair trade.
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The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
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I'm intensely private. I don't like giving interviews.
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I sort of forgot about 'Z Channel' after it went off the air in 1989, but once Jason Resnick of Focus Features made the suggestion, I became obsessed all over again. I still am. I'll probably be this way until I'm 80, babbling about 'Z Channel.'
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If you realize early what your influence is, you can have a better understanding of what you are writing about.
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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch.
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A lot of these artists are out here don't stay true to why they started doing this in the first place.
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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
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If you're trying to stay productive, stop and think, 'Are my meetings actually productive, or are we merely having meetings for meetings' sake?'
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IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.
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People talk about, 'Well, why don't they bring 'Growing Pains' back?' No, it belongs in the time capsule exactly where it was. It would probably look corny and dated if they tried to redo that. But I think, for its time, it was meaningful.
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I do really like doing animated movies. I like watching animated movies, and I always have. That's something I didn't let go of, from when I was a kid. It's always exciting for me to get to do that. Animated movies are so rarely bad.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global 'team of teams' that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.
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How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.
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We believe that 95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself as you go throughout your day. The sad fact is that if you do not deliberately and consciously talk to yourself in a positive and constructive way, you will, by default, think about things that will make you unhappy or cause you worry and anxiety. Your mind is like a garden. If you do not deliberately plant flowers and tend carefully, weeds will grow without any encouragement at all.
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Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.
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There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.
