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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Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.
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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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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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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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Every record has been very different, so I can't really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half the songs on that one in 2003 or something, and then I went back a few years later and re-recorded them and added some other songs.
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I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized that children are society's victims ... We have a duty to speak to political leaders, to influence people to give these children a better future.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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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.
