Frances O'Grady Quotes
I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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I think that his history of mendacity is so intense and so long-lasting that he wouldn't understand the truth if he fell over it.
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My family reached the United States before the Holocaust. Both of my parents emigrated from Russia as young children. My grandparents were fleeing religious persecution and came to America seeking a better life for their family.
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Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.
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Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many other wonderful organizations.
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I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.
