Marian McPartland Quotes
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.
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Without Justice, no realm may prosper.
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For several years, I have had my eye on second baseman Del Pratt of St. Louis. I cannot say that he is a better player than our own Joe Gedeon, but he has played better ball, and we wanted him. Well, how did I get him? I paid $15,000 in cash and gave away a number of good players for him. But what can you do?
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I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.
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All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is producing.
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You now have learned enough to see That Cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind. For some are sane and some are mad And some are good and some are bad And some are better, some are worse - But all may be described in verse.
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I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.
