Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
The truth is that we have to, as American citizens, stop thinking that this life that we're living, the things that we're dealing with, is some reality TV show. This is real life, real children, real situations.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
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There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?
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I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.
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Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U.S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn't become mainstream enough because the pages don't turn themselves.
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The truth is that we have to, as American citizens, stop thinking that this life that we're living, the things that we're dealing with, is some reality TV show. This is real life, real children, real situations.
