Ed Gordon Quotes
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There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
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As an offensive player, you always want to produce and score goals, especially when that's your job on the team.
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Dialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. When you're writing lines you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we talk to each other we never actually explain our terms. We don't say 'Sweetheart, would you pass me the sugar bowl, which we picked up for a song at that antique stall in Munich.'
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It's always darkness before the dawn.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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When I first came to Washington in the 1960s, even at the height of the Vietnam War, until the end there in '68 there was a certain climate of cooperation. And then in the late sixties and in through the seventies, politics began getting more mean. And then from the eighties on it seemed to be institutionalized, this personal attack business. And I just hate it.
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Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.
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Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.
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Perhaps I have made a mistake, but Heaven knows I have been faithful to my marriage vows.” She chuckled, “The more fool you!
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Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity.
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...along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world.
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Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.
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One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.
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Suicide is one of the greatest professional taboos for a therapist, as you abandon not only friends and family, but also vulnerable clients.
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I've grown up so much here. It's been two years. I've become a woman here, I've become an actress here.
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I hope I've grown. We all should grow from year to year.
