Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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No one person is an island.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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Isn't television glamourous?
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The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.
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If things had gone according to my plans, I'd be a lawyer. I never dreamt of being an actress.
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I'm so happy to be a song-writer - I'm even surprised when I get to record anything. I consider it a considerable privilege and a blessing to have a medium of expression that has a place in the world.
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I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines, as did George Benson before me. There've been lots of people who brought a pop audience to jazz because they were able to link the two and give people easy access to the world of jazz.
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Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
