Maureen O'Hara Quotes
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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…for thy huggest thy bolster, which men call a Dutch wife in some parts.
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The more a religion is aware of its opposition in principle to economic rationalization as such, the more apt are the religion’s virtuosi to reject the world, especially its economic activities.
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I've never met an artist whose spirit didn't want to fly.
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How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?
