Debra Winger Quotes
I push for what I think can be the best, and if I feel they're not going for the best, it kills me.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.
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If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.
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Health is never going to go out of fashion.
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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
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If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
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I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it on the side of the track for four minutes, it would be perfect.
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I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.
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I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.
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It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
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For three years, between 16 and 19, I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot - legends - and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.
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Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
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I want to own the New York Jets, that's what I want. And I absolutely believe I am going to own the Jets.
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The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.
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I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.
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The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who know me also know that I always want to win titles. And I think that Manchester United are a club which can win titles.
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Lucretius and his tradition taught Shelley that freedom came from understanding causation.
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I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.
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I'm lucky to be alive. It's a blessing to tell my story, you know.
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What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.
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That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
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Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.
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I push for what I think can be the best, and if I feel they're not going for the best, it kills me.
