Annie Lennox Quotes
I chose a career in obstetrics and gynecology because there's something about honoring women, honoring the birth process. We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
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I am an independent, educated woman, I make my own money, take care of my mom, and I am single, so I can do whatever I want, taking no one's permission, and that is the best part.
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Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.
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My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
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I've had to learn not to read all the bad comments, or if you do, try and not take it into your soul, body, brain, and heart.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
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But you can't really know your audiences so well.
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I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.
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I chose a career in obstetrics and gynecology because there's something about honoring women, honoring the birth process. We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.
