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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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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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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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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I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.
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Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.
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All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.
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I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.
