Debra Winger Quotes
But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.
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Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I always played to win.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
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It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.
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People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.
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People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.
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In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
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It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.
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I always worry I've probably written one too many Bernie Gunther books and that I should probably give him his gold watch.
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My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.
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I still have a lot of judgmentalism in me, where I'd see somebody, and I just would, you know, I disagree with this person, and you kind of automatically cast them away. And even though you don't do anything physically, you don't say anything, but people get a real sense of your heart.
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I wasn't turning down film roles, let's put it that way. I was never really on that radar.
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Events like this mean we can give something back to the people that support us, and hopefully everyone will have a great day and we can put on a good show for them.
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But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.
