Maureen O'Hara Quotes
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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It's kind of a loping stroke. It's not the prettiest stroke. But it's what's most efficient for me. And I think I kick a little more than most swimmers do.
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I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington.
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I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.
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We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.
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Truth takes no account of centuries.
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There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
