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Penny Jordan Quotes

A thoughtful cup of tea brought to your bedside each morning means more to me than the huge bouquet of flowers bought once a year.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: November 24, 1946 - December 31, 2011

Topics

Morning Tea Flowers Me Year More

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

Family Birthday Good Son Children

I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work.

Work People Believe Reach Goal Want

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Know Themselves Learned Ever Fully

Film acting, if you don't play the lead, you come, and you do your scenes in a few days, and you act with a couple of colleagues. All the rest of the actors you never see, and you don't even meet many of them. And you don't know what will happen with what you've done. Maybe it will be in the film, maybe it will not.

Colleagues Rest You Acting Play

A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.

Character Only Writer Plot Volume

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

Culture Politics Events Pop Culture

The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.

Experience Cool Writing You Take

If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Myself Talent Me Paid Dues Made

Challenging someone is good. You need to do it. Sometimes they don't even realize you're doing it, like when you joke with a goalie, 'What's wrong today? You losing it?'

Good Today Losing Someone Doing You

The goal of my work is to make visible the inevitable racist assumptions held, and patterns displayed, by white people conditioned from living in a white supremacist culture.

Work Culture People Goal Living

Your timing has to be very accurate. I've done a lot of wire work before. I can see that experience makes a big difference.

Work Experience I Can Done Timing

I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so do it. Then I'm taken out of the story considerably, personally.

Character Me Story Think You Seeing

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