Ann Cotton Quotes
I have seen the transformative effect that education has in the lives of young women and their communities.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.
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I encourage girls to lean in, use your brain, get in there, get in the conversation.
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Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.
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Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
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Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.
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I have seen the transformative effect that education has in the lives of young women and their communities.
