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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• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • Man
  • Talent

• I always played to win.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Always
  • Win
  • Played

• I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Loved
  • Favourite
  • Fabulous

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • May
  • America
  • War

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Words
  • Movies
  • Other

• 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.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Food
  • California
  • Vote

• 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.

  

  Imelda May
  • Great
  • Song
  • Day

• I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Reason
  • Saying
  • Nonsense

• 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.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Life
  • True
  • Nature

• It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • World
  • Important
  • Changes

• I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Hall

• 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.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • Know
  • Alone

• 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.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Fight
  • Name

• In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • America
  • Black
  • Body

• It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fun
  • Seeing
  • Behind

• Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Nature
  • Ego
  • Confident

• I always try to set a positive example for my generation and promote confidence.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • Positive
  • Confidence

• Anxiety is an extension of the dynamics of fear. It's the feeling of fear without an awareness of the object of your fear. All you know is that you're fearful, but you can't specify exactly what you are afraid of. You just worry about everything.

  

  G. Frank Lawlis
  • Feeling
  • Fear
  • Worry

• May I keep this book forever. May this book and this body outlast my love. May this book and this body love me as I love its length, its breadth, its thickness, its text, its skin, its letters, its punctuation, its quiet and its noisy pages.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • May
  • Book
  • Forever

• I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

  

  Peter Mullan
  • Good
  • Character
  • Nasty

• I have gas mask in my office because I took Chem/bio warfare training class so I can report in case of an attack. It’s on a copy of my head made by Madame Tussauds

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Training
  • Office
  • Cases

• But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.

  

  Debra Winger
  • Worry