Linda Lavin Quotes
So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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It's a complicated issue, and you can't boil it down in a tweet... two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate... The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Tea...is a religion of the art of life.
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So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers.
