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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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 love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.
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I find most 'rules' about how to write a 'good story' confining, and I enjoy writing stories that don't look like stories at all on the surface.
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Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand.
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He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.
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I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.
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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.
