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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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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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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You know what happens in all the big companies and business in the world. If something doesn't work, you have to find a solution.
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You can't value others until you value yourself.
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I'm intensely private. I don't like giving interviews.
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As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.
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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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We want to avoid creating this sort of inevitability that it's an all-or-nothing proposition that leads us down the path of a dead-end street. This package really does reflect, I believe, the more cautionary approach.
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Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the throes of hate, of unrequited love, of despair and anxiety. The function of magic is to ritualize man's optimism, to enhance his faith in the victory of hope over fear. Magic expresses the greater value for man of confidence over doubt, of steadfastness over vacillation, of optimism over pessimism.
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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.
