Fanny Burney Quotes
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.
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The usual justification for eating extra meals is that it keeps the metabolism 'revved up' so that weight loss is easier. There is, however, very little hard evidence that supports this idea, and a fair amount that disputes it.
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We talk of poverty and inequality, but in crafting an economic programme or policy for the future for this country, we must ensure no community, no region should be neglected.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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My music is about love, and I don't discriminate against any type of person.
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In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.
