Mary Dillon Quotes
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Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
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Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.
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I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.
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When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.
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I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.
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I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.
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Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.
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I can be an emotional eater. Of late, I have been doing that, yes. It started when I was very little. My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.
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People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.
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How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...?
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I'm the biggest fan of face-to-face communication.
