Edwina Currie Quotes
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.
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From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
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Yeah - I wanna be the sister to Khaleesi in 'Game of Thrones.' I wanna be a dragon lady; that would be really fun!
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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I like the work that I get to do.
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You've got to change with the public's taste.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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Over the centuries, Chinese bureaucrats perfected the dark arts of emptiness to such an extent that when they deliver speeches these days, they often recite verbatim speeches that they have previously delivered, with the sparest of adjustments.
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The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
