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've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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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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I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.
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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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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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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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There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, yeah, okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.
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Enterprises of the highest importance to our moral and material well-being unite us and offer ample employment of our best powers. Let all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander victories of peace.
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It's like for like, they've just picked another big No.6 to replace (Collins).
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Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow it to happen and follow your path.
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Language is the archives of history … Language is fossil poetry.
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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.
