Ann Dowd Quotes
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.
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Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.
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There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
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Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to.
