Debbie Reynolds Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
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I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.
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I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
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We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.
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I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.
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I'll often get obsessed with something for about three days, and I'll be utterly into it, and I'll read every single thing about it possible. And then three days later, I'll just forget about it, and I'll be onto something else.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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Bowie's been a huge influence on me.
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Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.
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Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.
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I love the way Tyra Banks dresses up - she looks so elegant and glamorous in whatever she wears. The confidence and attitude she exudes on and off the ramp is remarkable.
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
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Politicians aren't special. They lie the same way we all do, revealing their true nature under pressure.
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Biceps for show, triceps for go.
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But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
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He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.
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Someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. That's also what happens in almost every movie - someone is going to win and someone is going to lose.
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I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.
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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.
