April Bloomfield Quotes
I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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'Well, yes, surely I think everybody ought to enjoy life as much as it's humanly possible because that's why we exist. I believe.'
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I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.
