Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody.
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People take things so seriously.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.
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There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.
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You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.
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Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
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We'll be examining and auditing and reviewing all of the programs of the department and really figuring out what is the core mission and how can the federal department of education really support and enhance the role of the departments in the states.
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People always tell you, 'Be humble. Be humble.' When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!
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Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.
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In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.
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I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody.
