Marjorie Holmes Quotes
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.
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I talk about Breaking Bad being the most brilliant show ever, and even minor characters have subtle nuances and are fully drawn.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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I've got a knife and I want to talk to you I've got a prayer and I want to carve it to you I've got no chance, that's why I'm looking to you O Lord, ride with me
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Prayer, to the thinking person, is almost inescapable.
