Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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TV's been good to me.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that it's the truth." -Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
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The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.
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I'm a really good cook. I left home to start my career at 15 - so my choices were to either learn to cook or eat Ramen noodles for the rest of my life.
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I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an operating theatre.
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The way I look at it, Mark McCain could have grown up to lead dance bands in the 1920s and '30s. As a young man who sang and played the guitar in two episodes, he might have made his way to Los Angeles, where there was lots of work for musicians in the early 1900s. By 1931, when he would have been the same age that I am now, he might have been leading his own band. I like to think he would have.
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I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.
