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 didn't feel self conscious 'cause my sisters and I all had thick brows, and by the time I got to the age that I could be self conscious about them, they were in style!
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My character Milly in 'The Boy Who Could Fly' was a very strong part. There were dramatic moments, and there were humorous moments, too. The whole story with Eric Underwood's character was just wonderful, and the messages behind the script were very important to me.
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Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.
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Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
