Lois Wyse Quotes
Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.
Quotes to Explore
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
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I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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No, I never wish that. I don't intend to die till I've enjoyed my life. Everyone has a right to happiness and sooner or later I will have it. Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.
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Everyone in this country has a right to quality, affordable health care.
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The family is inclusive of not just your genetic family, but the people that you meet along the way.
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Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.
