B. C. Forbes Quotes
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
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Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
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No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
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For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.
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I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.
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Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.
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I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
