Maureen O'Hara Quotes
Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.
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We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.
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As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!
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Eventually I booked a 2-line role on a show called 'JAG' and slowly the parts got bigger and better. I'm very thankful that I had to appreciate how difficult the business is before I had any kind of success.
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To join a great club is nice and all, but you have to play the games.
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I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
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Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
