Ann Landers Quotes
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What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.
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You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.
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I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can't be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.
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I've always needed to bulk up, so until the modeling took off I was ramming Big Macs down my throat and doing plenty of bodyweight work. I'm over the Big Macs now, but I'll still drop down and do my press ups whenever I find the time.
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God has been with me in my whole career.
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I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.
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Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
