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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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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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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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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At primary school, we would pick up plastic petals on the way home to make flowers. Now you might call it child labour, but we did it for pocket money.
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There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.
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I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.
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I came from a Sorkin-like project in the sense that there was no freedom to change a line, which, in a weird way, is its own freedom because you're living within that structure and know this is what it is. You just adjust. Every project has its own personality.
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I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.
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I found out a few months after we started True Detective that I was pregnant.
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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.
