Marian McPartland Quotes
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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If the media isn't slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?
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Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull.
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The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.
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All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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I never thought about being the highest paid. I just wanted to be someone that people cared about watching, and I feel I'm a good actor.
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I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.
