Kitty Carlisle Quotes
So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.
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Broadway is really my life.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
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The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
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Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
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Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
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Atari collapsed in '84, and I went freelance, and that was when I started spreading out and doing my own thing. I really cut loose and did a game called 'Trust and Betrayal', which was the first game solely about interpersonal relationships.
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I got into the acting business very young.
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I grew up in a refinery town in Texas, and we weren't fancy enough to have a McDonald's.
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Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.
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So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.
