Kristy McNichol Quotes
My mother always wanted to be an actress. She was an extra in movies and stuff. I have a feeling this is the classic story: The mother wants to be an actress, and the child ends up doing it. But it was never a jealousy thing between us. It was like - well, I was making my mom happy.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's lives, and you're making them feel something with your music. That, I think, is the biggest key: to stay grounded and focused and stay true to who you are as a person.
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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I want to do music, and I want that to be the highlight of everything that I do. I want that at the forefront.
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I just adore RuPaul... this guy is a tireless worker, just with everything that he does, and I just think he's so fabulous.
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In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
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I did not grow up around computers, so technology was not a tool used every day in my household. I was drawn to computer science due to the creative nature of programming and the technology focus.
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It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.
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My mother always wanted to be an actress. She was an extra in movies and stuff. I have a feeling this is the classic story: The mother wants to be an actress, and the child ends up doing it. But it was never a jealousy thing between us. It was like - well, I was making my mom happy.
