Debbie Reynolds Quotes
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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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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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Human nature is accused of much more selfishness than it really has ; a thousand kindly emotions break in upon and redeem our daily and interested life.
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I'm sick of dour faces Staring at me from the T.V. Tower. I want roses in my garden bower; dig?
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Some days, I do feel that pressure of, 'What do I mean as a black woman? What am I representing?' It honestly just gives me anxiety.
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I think it's important to show that... you can't be perfect, and you have to embrace the fact that you're original, and it's what makes you interesting.
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It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.
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One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, "If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it." When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can't understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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All of my husbands have robbed me blind.
