Ann Dowd Quotes
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.
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You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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All that men will serve God with must be done in Faith, viz. in the Spirit. It is the Spirit that maketh the work perfect, and acceptable in the sight of God. All that a man undertaketh and doeth in Faith, he doth in the Spirit of God, which Spirit of God doth co-operate in the work, and then it is acceptable to God.
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Ruefully admitting we can neither remain children nor all become artists still less saints and mystics, we turn back, regretfully, but massively, to the time-ridden world.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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Thrumpton Hall can be thought of as a venerable old lady, ageing gracefully. But I didn't always feel this way. Children want more than anything to be very conventional and very normal, so it was excruciating and, at times, very upsetting to grow up in a house like this.
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American history has always had elements of what we now think of as Trumpism - Joe McCarthy, George Wallace, Father Coughlin. It's not as if these things haven't always existed, and they were powerful. The big difference is Trump is president.
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I have a family and children I adore and a husband who's wonderful.
