Letitia Baldrige Quotes
Writers on etiquette receive a continuous flow of questions on subjects such as 'When is it too early in the season to wear white accessories?' and 'What is the proper gift to send to a family in mourning?'
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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I don't know, I like the word sassy.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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The thing with newspapers is that they are a filter. We're relying on the editors of that paper to be a filter and to tell you that this is worth reading about, this is quality, and this is quite reliable.
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With 'The Mummy' it was a fantasy action adventure. You get taken away for a few hours and come out and feel revamped and ready to go into the world and enjoy your next day at work.
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I'd love to do 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' again - especially on Broadway.
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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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Writers on etiquette receive a continuous flow of questions on subjects such as 'When is it too early in the season to wear white accessories?' and 'What is the proper gift to send to a family in mourning?'
