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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I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.
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If everyone loves you for the person you are, let alone your music is incredible, I think that's a really great place to be.
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It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.
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In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.
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I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.
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I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.
