Debbie Reynolds Quotes
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.
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I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.
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I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.
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When I am gone I hope there may still be courageous people in the world to criticize me, so that I don't become a hindrance on anybody's path. And those who will criticize me will not be my enemies; neither am I the enemy of those whom I have criticized. The working of the enlightened masters just has to be understood.
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Much of what we often consider knowledge is actually a point of view held without sufficient grounds: in a word, dogma.
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How mad would it actually be to do an 'Avatar' type animation film, but about something mundane like a Winn-Dixie cashier's day at work? That'd be something else, I think.
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I've always been drawn to the message of 'Be yourself. Love yourself.' I need to be reminded of that all time.
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As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that 'The Book of Mormon' was something I got to be part of. I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.
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Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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I am a kid. I'll always be a girl at heart.
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All of my husbands have robbed me blind.
