Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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It might be quite boring if you did something and thought it was perfect.
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As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.
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To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.
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The reason why Millennials are inspiring is what they give: the music they give.
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You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.
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One of the things that's fun about TV is it grows, and you set goals and aim towards stuff, and one of the writers has an idea, and you say, 'Ooh, that's so much cooler. Let's do that instead.' It's so much more fluid and organic that way, and that's the most fun part about it.
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Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.
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If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.
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When you do movies, it's you have a 3-month family and then everybody goes away and then joins another family, you know?
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I grew up in Chicago, but when I was 12, I came to New York because I was doing an episode of 'Law & Order.'
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To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
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Don't be afraid to express yourself through fashion!
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People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, 'You need to write a book because you've had a crazy life.'
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Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.
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I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.
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At the end of the day, the ultimate goal is winning the ballgame.
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When I was about 19, my stepmother said - because this was back in the 80s - that I had Robert Wagners pompadour. I said, What are you talking about? You mean the guy from Hart to Hart?
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I still think about that one Jamiroquai video a lot.
