Samuel Goldwyn Quotes
Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
Quotes to Explore
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.
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A studious person may neglect his business for the sake of books; but if he does this, it is not his books that are to blame, but his want of principle of of firmness.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
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The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
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Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
