Dan Monson Quotes
You have to believe in your bosses, especially in this day and age where there is so much out there that can be posted without checks and balances.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.
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Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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I didn't know the books and certainly didn't know the tragic origin story of Mary Poppins in 1906 Australia.
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I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.
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It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.
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Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.
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You have to believe in your bosses, especially in this day and age where there is so much out there that can be posted without checks and balances.
