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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The networks have to answer to their sponsors. That's the difficult thing you learn.
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You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.
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What will it cost [a person] to be a true Christian? It will cost him his self-righteousn ess. He must cast away all pride and high thoughts, and conceit of his own goodness. He must be content to go to heaven as a poor sinner, saved only by free grace, and owing all to the merit and righteousness of another.
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I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or for the natural side-wave of her brown hair, done anyhow, or again for that movement of her plump shoulders. But, probably the truth was that I loved her because she loved me. To her I was the ideal man: brains, pluck. And there was none dressed better. I remember once, when I first put on that new dinner jacket, with the vast trousers, she clapsed her hands, sank down on a chair and murmured: 'Oh, Hermann...." It was ravishment bordering upon something like heavenly woe.
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The past is like the hair on our head. I moved to New York when I was twelve, but you always have this feeling that wherever you come from, you physically leave it, but it doesn't leave you.
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When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.
