Carol Leifer Quotes
My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it,'
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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.
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It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
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I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.
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When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
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In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.
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I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
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I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?' I don't even ask the questions because I don't really want to know. I like not performing for a camera but giving it my best every single time whether you're close or whether you're far.
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Dad was never a Mr. Mum-type of person who'd stay at home. It was a big thing when he was home - he was a circus.
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I get egotistical about things where I can do something well - for example, my singing. Most other things, I don't have the wherewithal to back it up.
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'There's nothing wrong with the word conspiracy. It just means 'to breathe together'.'
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My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it,'
