Annie Lennox Quotes
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My mother always seemed to be working. Our dining room table was cluttered with papers waiting to be read and graded.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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Keep your eye on the ball.
Ford Frick -
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Maybe that's how I learned to handle my deep hurt-by forgetting.
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Such is the aspect of this shore;'T is Greece, but living Greece no more!So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,We start, for soul is wanting there.
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Usually this desire for family limitation has been laid to economic pressure... It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion.
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A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
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When you work hard, when you believe in something, in the end, you will achieve something.
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They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.
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I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.
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If you don't have a certain amount of stage fright, then it's not going to be that interesting. It's not going to have the inner vibration. I think screen work needs inner vibration.
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The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.
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I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with.
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I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.
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Once I got over my initial butterflies, being in the same room and doing a scene with Jimmy Caan was great. I never backed down for one second against him. I loved it. I love those moments. Working with people like that is the greatest joy you can get as an actor.
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Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?
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'Army of one': when the shit hits the fan, you're on your own.14.
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I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly.
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Sure, call me any ugly name you choose - The steel of freedom does not stain. From those who live like leeches on the people's lives, We must take back our land again, America!
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I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.
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You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.
