James Russell Lowell Quotes
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
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Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
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You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.
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If the man who turnips cries,Cry not when his father dies,'Tis a proof that he had ratherHave a turnip than his father.
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What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.
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Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves.
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As far as standup, everybody has a vehicle they are driving. If what you do works, it's like playing golf. If you can master that one swing over and over again, you will be successful. That's what standup is. You have to have a central move and it has to be yours. You have to own your comedy, own what you do.
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'T was kin' o' kingdom-come to look On sech a blessed cretur.
