Marlo Thomas Quotes
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I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.
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The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.
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I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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I am a passionate devotee of the Howard Hawks' screwball comedies of the 1930s and the 1940s, where I think that the relations between men and women were at their civilized height in terms of banter and exchange of wit and equality.
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She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.
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Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.
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I know George Burns was a very happy man.
