Debra Messing Quotes
I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.
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Be cheerful and grateful for the good that you have: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
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Being kind to myself helped me deal with people who thought less of me and thought they were better than me.
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I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life.
