Mary McDonnell Quotes
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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Winning excuses everything.
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When I started wrestling, I started only to get in shape. I found out that a wrestling school had opened in Ireland, and I wanted to go because I was hanging out with the wrong crowd and I wanted to turn my life around.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
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There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money.
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My mother worked for a white family that lived in one of the mansions on the beach. The husband in the family was a lawyer; he worked for a firm in New Orleans.
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Each year we look for a big name that is attractive to the public and pleasant for the girls.
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I love to work. I love to have complexity.
