Dana Goldstein Quotes
The question is rarely asked, "Why is it that so few other Americans have these protections?" The question is more often asked, "Why do teachers have it so easy?"
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
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I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.
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All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.
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I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.
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The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.
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Could there have been a better role for Florence Henderson than Mrs. Brady? She nurtured everybody. She was so caring.
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I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
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The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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Everyone in a company needs incentives, but they should be tied directly to the performance of the company.
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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.
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The question is rarely asked, "Why is it that so few other Americans have these protections?" The question is more often asked, "Why do teachers have it so easy?"
