Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
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I felt bad to have to get divorced. I wasn't proud of that.
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I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
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If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
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My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
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A tactic used by authors of virtually every single book I've ever read that propounds a conspiracy theory is to attack an agency as being part of a conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination, but when this same agency comes up with something favorable to the author's position, the author will cite that same agency as credible support for his argument.
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When I first visited the Hospice in Milton, I had a pre-conceived idea as to what to expect. Far from being a clinical, depressing place for sick children, it was a home. Most importantly, it was a family home, a happy place of stability, support and care. It was a place of fun.
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Bad things happen sometimes.
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
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It's not that I want to break down the public schools, ... I want to improve them for every child, but my children needed to be educated right now.
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I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.
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I just hope that there's a market for somebody who looks like me as the lead of a rom-com, you know?
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My life is very well managed. I have a lot on my plate, and at the same time, there were still holes, and what I do and where I am dovetails nicely with what Agnieszka needs. I don't think I could be a coach for a Madison Keys because she needs somebody more hands-on. But Agnieszka is almost a finished product.
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I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
