Madeleine Albright Quotes
This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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I used to be so scared about, 'Oh, I don't want to show my body.' Now that I've shown it, it doesn't bug me about my moles, or 'This isn't big enough' and 'That's not smooth enough.'
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.
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I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'
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Every time you have a new tax, or every time you have to pay really an inordinate amount for a regulation, it's really stifling this country and really stifling American business.
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American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
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Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.
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This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.
