Maureen O'Hara Quotes
The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
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It's not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel that I need to push myself harder to pay back for all the good fortune that I have received.
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Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.
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I love so much what I do that I spend so much time thinking about it, and then I go home, and then I'm thinking about it, so it's nice sometimes when a movie is over, and then the niggling feelings about whether you've did it right or not start to ebb away.
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Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.
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Hopefully, more and more people will begin to feel their story is somehow part of this larger story of how we're going to reshape America in a way that is less mean-spirited and more generous.
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The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.
