Christie Hefner Quotes
I don't think the Playboy brand has changed much at all - it's always been sophisticated and aspirational.
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I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.
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I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.
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I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.
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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
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I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
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During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
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It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.
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No use to fall down on my knees and beg for mercy's sake. Nothing I counted mine, out of my life, is mine to take...
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I think that when you make a record, an album, it has to be a discovery for the person listening to it, so you don't want to pat everything out and say 'this was that, this is definite, that's how it happened and that's what you should feel and that's what you should like or dislike'. It's personal discovery.'
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This much have I learned: A man’s life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
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I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.
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Films are just consumables.
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The American diet causes disease. It is composed of 25 percent animal products and 62 percent processed foods and only 5 percent of calories from fruits and vegetables.
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My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want to do in life. Do I want to get to 50 years old and come back? Or will I just want to go home and be fishing, hunting and working around the house?
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From the moment we were first dumped in Jamestown and had our teeth checked before getting sold off and later considered three-fifths of a human being, an abundance of 'likability' hasn't been something blacks have had to stockpile. Instead, it's been a centuries-long battle for respectability.
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Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world.
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I don't think the Playboy brand has changed much at all - it's always been sophisticated and aspirational.
