Kate Douglas Wiggin Quotes
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
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There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like 'You should not know where the camera is - you should act, and I will do the rest.'
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So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions.
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The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.
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I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations.
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In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
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Your job as a producer is to make suggestions without putting your ego in front of everything else. Also, I think you want to focus on that artist's best qualities and really highlight them.
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The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.
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I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.
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I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.
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My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.
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I like to work the count, but I know when I have to be aggressive.
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'We need a guy who plays dodge ball and thinks he's a pirate - get me Alan Tudyk on the phone!' Those are the jobs I do.
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I mean, I'm very, very competitive.
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With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.
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The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
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Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.
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wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it.
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Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.
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Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.
