Kirstie Alley Quotes
I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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Seeing a full display of humanity involved in space is a game-changer for everyone. We've all looked at the stars; we've all imagined what was going on. Not everyone wants to go, but everyone wants to know what it's like.
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Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
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If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.
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All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.
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I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go.
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You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
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I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.
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Just keep it simple. When you over-think what you're wearing, that's when wardrobe malfunctions tend to happen.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'
