Piper Laurie Quotes
I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.
Quotes to Explore
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The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.
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Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.
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I've never supported one penny of tuition increases.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point.
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No damn man kills me and lives.
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I announce the resignation of the government, perhaps as the only way for Lebanon's main political blocs to assume their responsibilities and come together to pull Lebanon out of an unknown tunnel.
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There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.
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The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same difference between a beautiful and a plain woman - a matter of millimetres.
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Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!
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The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts – the less you know the hotter you get.
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Are we to say that any individual who's on steroids that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who's not on steroids? What do we blame it on now?
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America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
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A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife and children; a dramatic change to your own life.
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I think that life is incredibly violent and that individual people are incredibly violent on one level or another. I don't try to change life to suit my writing; in a certain way I'm a naturalist of the nineteenth century school.
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I have always been very dedicated to tennis, and it's true that I made some compromises in my life. For example, I never went out to parties when I was younger, and I spent less time with friends.
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I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.
