Zuleikha Robinson Quotes

'Lone Gunmen' was my first job, and I got a little cocky, thinking I'm brilliant and don't have to work that hard because it comes so naturally.

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• I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.

  

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• I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.

  

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• I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.

  

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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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• The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

  

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• A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

  

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• The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

  

  Walter Benjamin
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• Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

  

  Fannie Flagg
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• A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

  

  Sam Keen
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• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

  

  Harlan Ellison
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• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
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• I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

  

  Ovid
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• While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.

  

  Ted Deutch
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• When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

  

  Barbara Boxer
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• The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.

  

  Kate Flannery
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• I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

  

  Yani Tseng
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• An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

  

  Daniel Webster
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• Give me the new thing and give it to me now. I don't want that old thing - I've seen it, heard it, bought it, slept with it, loved it, but now I'm bored with the old thing and I'm gagging for the new stuff.

  

  Arthur Smith
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• The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.

  

  Jim Sensenbrenner

• We underestimate children and the people who work with them. I swear - so often, I tell people I am a children's author, and it's like they want to pat me on the head: 'Aw, isn't that sweet.'

  

  Kathi Appelt
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• 'Lone Gunmen' was my first job, and I got a little cocky, thinking I'm brilliant and don't have to work that hard because it comes so naturally.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Job