Wendy Cope Quotes
I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
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My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
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I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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I like women with style to wear my shoes.
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I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.
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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
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I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
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Regardless of what you're searching, you ain't gonna find it until you include God. Because, if you have a problem with women, drugs, or whatever the case may be, the only person that can fix that problem is God.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.
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That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
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I want to see more Asian. I want to see more Latin. I want more Indian. There's more than Mindy Kaling out there, guys! There's more than Bai Ling.
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It is our utopias that make the world tolerable to us: the cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
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We had nothing, no television, no radio, nothing to get in the way. We read by the streetlight at the top of the lane, and we acted out the stories.
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Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.
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When I started acting professionally, it really felt like an extension of just playing around - it was all very organic.
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I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
