Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
Tom Stoppard
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When I step back and look at all of these really successful people that I've worked with, one thing I do take away from it is how hard they work and how focused they are.
Mia Wasikowska
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When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.
Rory Bremner
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School systems now routinely have more administrators than classroom teachers. They have armies of counselors and therapists and nutritionists and 'multi-cultural learning facilitators.'
Mike Gallagher
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People are swept into the criminal justice system - particularly in poor communities of color - at very early ages... typically for fairly minor, nonviolent crimes.
Michelle Alexander
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Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.
Michael Moore
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The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks?
Jonathan Raban
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I think white women need to wake up and say, 'Not all women are white,' three times in front of the mirror.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.
Alice Walker
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I'm tired of being considered a lesbian writer, tired of being a science-fiction writer, tired of being a thriller writer. I'm a writer. Period. Story matters to me.
Nicola Griffith
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I always carry a sketchbook around with me, and I sketch whenever I can... I might be in a financial review and be sketching because I find that I actually listen better when I sketch. Truth be told, there are probably more sketches in my books than there are written notes.
Mark Parker
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You have the United States, and you have Mexico, and then you have this Mexican-American thing which is this third culture, which I like to call Aztlan.
Linda Ronstadt
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Shane Johnson and I coincidently went to Whitman College. This is notable because Whitman is teeny-tiny, with only 1,200 students. He graduated the spring before I started, so we didn't know each other.
Lela Loren
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