Dorothy McGuire Quotes
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.
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Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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The circus leaves a sweet memory.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.
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You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.
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Having the chance to walk at New York Fashion Week for Yeezy and Milan Fashion Week for Alberta Ferretti and Max Mara in a hijab is so significant. It sends a message to young women everywhere that you can be beautiful for just being you.
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I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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I'm teaming up with Quaker and PLAY 60 to encourage kids to eat right, stay active and do something outside for at least 60 minutes a day.
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Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for granted.
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To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.
