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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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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Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.
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When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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The thing is, I'm a competitor by nature. I like to compete.
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How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
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I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.
