Cynthia Dill Quotes

Choosing to work where there is a union and getting the related benefits of higher wages and collective bargaining, but not paying a fair share of the costs of representation, would be freeloading, right?

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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • History
  • Natural
  • Clever

• How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Quality
  • Stand

• Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• The pace of television is very different from film.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Different
  • Film
  • Television

• I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Book
  • Health
  • Teacher

• There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • World
  • Doubt
  • Better

• I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Drummer
  • Set
  • Bedroom

• I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Play
  • Exciting
  • Broadway

• I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Journey
  • Limits
  • Reggae

• Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Forget
  • Greatest
  • Thieves

• My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Smile
  • Face
  • Cause

• I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • People
  • High
  • Hair

• I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Good
  • Best
  • Thing

• I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Laughter

• Necessity has the face of a dog.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Dog
  • Face
  • Necessity

• I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Love
  • Want
  • Reading

• I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.

  

  Katherine Paterson
  • Book
  • Power

• In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written everything from picture books to early chapter books to middle grade novels to YA to one adult novel - and having been editor and lead writer for a magazine for retired people!

  

  Bruce Coville
  • People
  • Age
  • Picture

• Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Me

• I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Work
  • Position
  • Redesign

• It's just wrong to work your whole life to build up a nest egg, build your own business - you pass away, and Uncle Sam can swoop in and take away nearly half of everything you've earned. Can you imagine that? Having to sell off most of your land just to keep it from the government, just to save the house.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• Choosing to work where there is a union and getting the related benefits of higher wages and collective bargaining, but not paying a fair share of the costs of representation, would be freeloading, right?

  

  Cynthia Dill
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