Lillian Hellman Quotes
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
Ram Kapoor
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
Abu Bakr
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
Lance Secretan
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In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
H. R. McMaster
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
Sam Elliott
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
Manuel Puig
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I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.
Kate Christensen
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The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
J. Paul Getty
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
Ma Jun
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Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
Patricia Millett
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I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
Ed Bradley
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
Laura Amy Schlitz
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It was like my part-time job as a kid to be an adventurer... in my head. I used to sword-fight in the garden and in the park - with my Nan, of all people, with my Nan who can barely walk! I used to make her run around, and I'd go around destroying these trees and cones and stuff.
Elliot Knight
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I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.
Salma Hayek
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I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.
Jerry Della Femina
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I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.
Andrew O'Hagan
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
Lillian Hellman
