Debbie Reynolds Quotes
I was a simple kid who was thrown into the wonderful world of show business. I've loved every moment. These are my recollections. If you remember things differently, send me your version - but only if it’s funnier.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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When you get into a car, and there's trash, or it's dirty, or one of the hubcaps is off, you're like, 'Come on, dude.' Every woman likes the confidence and self-respect that says, 'I get oil changes. I look after my vehicle.' That's what I recommend: Act like you don't care, but take care of your body.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
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We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller.
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Emigration is always a difficulty.
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.
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Sleazy people are always in this business. They run the business, pretty much. There are a lot of barracudas.
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I remember reading Dave Barry for the first time and being like oh my God I can't believe you can do this. Watching Mel Brooks and Monty Python and SNL and all that stuff really informed me as a writer and then at high school I started a satire magazine and the college like The Lampoon really introduced me to like you know a lot of very like-minded people who really wanted to like comedy was the center of their lives.
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I was a simple kid who was thrown into the wonderful world of show business. I've loved every moment. These are my recollections. If you remember things differently, send me your version - but only if it’s funnier.
