People Quotes
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Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.
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I did a picture called 'Lovely, Still' with Ellen Burstyn, We screened it to the AARP people in Las Vegas, 2000 of them. We got a standing ovation from people who couldn't stand.
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I find it hard to read people's minds, my own children's minds even harder. But it all worked out, and I was blessed with two wonderful children.
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Whenever people say 'we mustn't be sentimental' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'we must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.
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It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.
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In the past, I've tried to show the human side of people involved in stigmatised or misunderstood lifestyles. I've tried to resist easy judgments and not pander to prejudices.
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It's just a wild experience to have thousands of people stand up and cheer for you.
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When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.
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Trying to show people something they haven't really seen before can get a lot of push-back.
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People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.
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I think people see faith as a section of their life, like, 'I go to church on Sunday...' but for me, my faith runs through the entirety of my life.
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Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.
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We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep.
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The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all contribute to core goals of U.S. policy in those countries.
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Where most people looked forward to the weekend to go out and yie one on, my idea of a good time was to figure out a Scorpions song
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I think marriage works for some people, but I just don't think it could work for me. I don't see it.
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Fifty is a big corner to turn. It used to mean being put out to pasture, but it's the opposite with me. I feel more vibrant; I'm more active than I've ever been. The F-word really is freedom. It's the freedom to have dropped the rock-the rock of addiction, of family, of comparisons with other people. It's being fit and focused and kind of furious.
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The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
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I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.
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A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.
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The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.
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Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.
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A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
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People think it's so easy to make hamburgers. That consistent quality in so many restaurants, in that many parts of the world, is not an easy thing to do.
