Carol Leifer Quotes
I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
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I want to be like Bradley Cooper when I grow up.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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The U.N. has been focusing on the global goals in terms of trying to fight and eradicate poverty, and I feel like education is at the root of it all.
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I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in. I've always loved music. Started out loving to sing to the standards and songs of the early 50s, then that interest shifted to rock and roll, Motown, folk.
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I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.
