Maureen O'Hara Quotes
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
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It's weird to get gifted things as an actress because it usually happens when you've made a movie, and you can finally afford something, and then these fashion labels give it to you for free.
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A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls. When we nap, we are resting our eyes while our imaginations soar. Getting ready for the next round. Sorting, sifting, separating the profound from the profane, the possible from the improbable. Rehearsing our acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, our surprise on receiving the MacArthur genius award. This requires a prone position. If we're lucky, we might drift off, but we won't drift far. Just far enough to ransom our creativity from chaos.
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Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.
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I grew up in southern Sudan, one of nine children. Our life was simple but very happy.
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I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.
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My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.
