Leila Josefowicz Quotes
I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
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There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I was a Girl Scout!
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.
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My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that.
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Beetroot is a great salad ingredient, especially when still warm; the colour ain't bad, either.
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I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.
