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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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 don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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'Evening Shade' was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had barely had an acting class. So as Burt Reynolds continued to bring me back for the next three years, I learned so much from him and all the other legends that were on the show.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.
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A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.
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I'm such a type A doer myself that if someone said I had a month off, I think I'd go crazy and try to organize the vacation resort!
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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.
