Blythe Danner Quotes
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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I say things as if they've already happened, so as I'm getting ready I can think about it and feel it, how it's going to feel to win, and I see myself getting on the podium.
Mandy Bujold -
I've never really identified with the way a typical alpha male views women. It's always an awkward forum for me to hang out with another guy and talk about girls, because I can't really find a way to fit in.
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France has more need of me than I have need of France.
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Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.
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I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.
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A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.
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There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.
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My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.
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Be kind to yourself.
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Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
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As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.
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People forget they have options. And they forget that those things really don't matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have.
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Actors are very generous.
