"I'm a positive person who likes to see things get done."

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Source : "Kathy Calvin | President/CEO of United Nations Foundation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

#Done Quotes #Likes Quotes #Persons Quotes

“If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I'll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco.”
“If we go about apologizing for speaking to people of the things of God, we must not be very much surprised if they catch our timidity and they feel awkward and we feel awkward. There is a certain shyness and awkwardness about us when we go to tell men and women of the things of eternal life, which react upon them until they become nervous and awkward too.”
“Twenty-two pages is not a lot of space. Believe me. Having written a bazillion comics, I still find myself more often than nine pages into a script and realizing to my horror that I'm only about a quarter of the way through the story I wanted to tell, and the next thing you know, I'm making fresh coffee and tearing up the floorboards to rewrite.”
“I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.
“It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of ***** which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.”

Source : Alastair Reynolds (2002). “Revelation Space”, p.406, Penguin
“What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples spending far more time discussing the seating arrangement or the color of the bridesmaid's gowns than hashing out, for instance, their feelings about how they intend to handle questions of housework, child-rearing, finances and fidelity for the next four or five decades.”
“A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.”
“Everyone changes all the time.”

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