Drea De Matteo Quotes
I swore I would never do a reality show. I've been offered them for years and years because our family life is a little crazy - I will admit to that. Definitely not the conventional mom or family - or anything, for that matter.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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How does one get bored of life?
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.
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The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.
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I'm very grateful that I don't have to wear heels, because I can barely walk in heels. If I were to skip, it would be deadly.
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More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.
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Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word 'race' has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No one today would deny that it is one of the great catchwords about which ink and blood are spilled in reckless quantities. Yet no agreement seems to exist about what race means.
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I swore I would never do a reality show. I've been offered them for years and years because our family life is a little crazy - I will admit to that. Definitely not the conventional mom or family - or anything, for that matter.
