Andrew Lansley Quotes
If, over time, patients don't go to some services, then progressively they become less viable, so you do arrive at a point where the conclusion is: 'These are the right services for the future, and this is capacity we don't need.'
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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I'm a proud family man.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
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You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.
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Some guys, when they play with other elite players, they end up being too unselfish; or guys who are used to having the ball in their hands all the time, now they're not as aggressive or as instinctive because they're thinking too much out there.
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Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.
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If, over time, patients don't go to some services, then progressively they become less viable, so you do arrive at a point where the conclusion is: 'These are the right services for the future, and this is capacity we don't need.'
