Barbara Tuchman Quotes
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.
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A library is a growing organism.
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Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
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It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
