Darby Stanchfield Quotes
As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do. So I used my imagination all of the time growing up. That's the main way I played. When we moved and I went to high school, I did my first play, and I was completely addicted to theatre. It felt like home; it felt natural.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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I haven't had many relationships.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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The emergence of civilization has everywhere followed a definable sequence.
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Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
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Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.
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Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.
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As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do. So I used my imagination all of the time growing up. That's the main way I played. When we moved and I went to high school, I did my first play, and I was completely addicted to theatre. It felt like home; it felt natural.
