Barbara Mikulski Quotes
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
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Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.
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Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout the movie, where people just don't really get a break from laughing. And if they do, it's for a brief emotional scene, and then we're going to once again try to knock them on their heels again with comedy.
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One day about 10 years ago the door to my office opened and who walked in but Bill Gates.... Seemed like a nice guy and has done more with his money than most billionaires. But that's as far as I want to go being kind to Bill Gates.
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Nathan is a guy that has been in pennant races, and we have a lot of confidence in him. He's a hard thrower, throws lots of strikes and has the ability to close out games, so we think he will fit in well with this bullpen.
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I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.
