Deborah Needleman Quotes
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
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Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
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When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.
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I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.
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As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.
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The only delay, ... is that when you are dealing with 50 states, 12 investment banks, a significant number of regulatory entities, simply getting sign-offs, drafting agreements on stray words takes a bit of time.
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All going well, I should have the rollout completed in about three months time.
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The more rewarding part of doing a solo record for me was having more control in the studio.
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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
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With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.
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I always tell my students to write the story all the way through, not to play with the language and fall in love with sentences that you then have to cut. I actually find that really difficult to do; there's something so demoralizing about looking at a pile of not very great sentences. As I ease into writing every morning, I tweak a sentence and then tweak a paragraph.
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With theatre, you can interpret the most complex play on stage for it have meaning to an audience because you're dealing in images, you're dealing in action, you can use different idioms to interpret and clarify something which is obscured in the reading and of course there are different kinds of play, there are mythological plays, there are what I call the dramatic sketches, direct political theatre which is virtually everybody, but I find that you can use the stage as a social vehicle, you know, which any kind of audience.
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It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the collective world. Take them away and those voices turn inwards or vanish. Turns out that libraries have nothing at all to do with silence.
