Letitia Baldrige Quotes
That's how a nation's manners are going to be taught - from watching others' behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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Paris ain't much of a town.
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I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
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'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.
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The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.
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I'm a big fan of having a team with different thoughts and backgrounds and experiences; that makes for a better enterprise and better decision-making.
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That's how a nation's manners are going to be taught - from watching others' behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior.
