Leslie Hope Quotes

I was very aware that my path into the industry would probably be as an actress and not in production, that I could learn a lot that way. And I did.

Leslie Hope

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I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

Michael Cerveris

MusicSchoolMeSingingVoiceSongs

Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large.

Sue Monk Kidd

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To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about.

Tom Wolfe

LoveGreatAdventureJoyMeWriting

From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique.

Michael Keaton

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I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

Michael Moore

AskEverythingConscienceAnything

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

Jason Ritter

WouldEmbarrassingEvenTriedDad

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Josh Billings

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I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.

Douglas Southall Freeman

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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Aristotle

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I'm of that generation of Jews still deeply influenced by the Holocaust. Certainly the notion that the state power to kill can be subject to such extraordinary abuse is always lurking beneath the surface for me. Certainly my experience and identity as a Jew is there.

Scott Turow

PowerExperienceIdentityMeAbuse

With foxes we must play the fox.

Thomas Fuller

PlayFoxMustFoxes

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

Tim Scott

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