Danielle Dax Quotes
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!
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I'm not a Democrat.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
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The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.
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Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
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Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.
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Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.
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[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
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The things that are hardest to shoot are the things where you want people just to feel very natural, and you want to do love scenes, and you want to do just kids hanging out and trying to get them to relax.
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I don't really feel part of any particular movement.
