Mary Crosby Quotes
I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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When I was 16, I went to Berlin - West Berlin, since at that time a wall still divided the city - to live for three months with a family on an exchange program.
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Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
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Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
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I think it's important to understand the concrete ways things work and to respect that. But some things shouldn't be explained, and you have to respect that, too.
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I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas.
