Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (Dusty Springfield) Quotes
I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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There are no rules to writing a song.
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My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.
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God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
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I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.
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I'm not going to doubt my life.
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Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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Creating sustainable jobs means doubling down on Baltimore's formidable strengths.
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Non-alignment will continue to be the fundamental basis of our approach to world problems and our relations with other countries.
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We tried to find the mayor. His secretary said he was at home. His wife said he was at the office. In Italy or France this would mean His Honor was having an affair. In Chabarovice it probably meant he'd run off to be a busboy in Stuttgart.
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To the jury foreman in the second trial: 'Mr. Rodriguez? Can I ask you a question? What do you think a grown man up in his 40s is doing sleeping with one little boy after the next, all by himself, locked up in his bedroom, every night? That doesn't bother you? It bothers me.'
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You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.
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Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.
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No descubras, que puede no haber nada. Y nada no se vuelve a cubrir.
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If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough.
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When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was doing that film.
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I am pleased to report that Texas is known for having one of the strongest set of open government laws in our Nation. And ever since that experience, I have long believed that our federal government could use 'a little Texas sunshine.'
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Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.
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I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.
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Who knew? If the illusion is quite perfect, who is to say it is not real?
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I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.
