Jane Powell Quotes
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my career], because so many things are on the road. I just don't want to be away from my husband, my dogs and my home. I don't sing that much any more because that also takes you on the road.
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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People love having a home. People love going to their house and sleeping in their bedroom and having a conversation around the dinner table. You don't particularly think of that conversation as a private conversation; you just think of it as something that happened in your home.
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When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
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I don't want to answer questions about my favourite food or holiday spot.
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I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my career], because so many things are on the road. I just don't want to be away from my husband, my dogs and my home. I don't sing that much any more because that also takes you on the road.
