Debra Winger Quotes
I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.
Quotes to Explore
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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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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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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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We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
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After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.
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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 write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm inspired or have ideas.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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Those who hope for purity and righteousness always try and destroy that which disturbs them. They think the disturbance comes from outside themselves. This is a serious problem. Wars, suicide bombings, and all sorts of other nasty things start from the premise that we can destroy 'evil' outside ourselves without dealing with the evil within.
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I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.
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I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.
