Booth Tarkington Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
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You have to be proud of who you are.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.
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I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.
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One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable. (11 September 1941)
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'
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An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
