Debra Winger Quotes
I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I'm a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I've been successful. If you tell me no, I'll work even harder!
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I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.
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Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
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Some people become artists for whatever reasons. Some of it's frivolous. And I don't think there should be any shame on that, but I think there comes a point in life where you want to offer more.
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One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.
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I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
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The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone in the quiet patio looking for some old untried illusion - some shadow on the whiteness of the wall some memory asleep on the stone rim of the fountain, perhaps in the air the light swish of some trailing gown.
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My whole life, I've been a Temptation.
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I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.
