John Garfield Quotes

I always wanted to be in the limelight, and I found I could get it by being on the stage. That was the beginning of everything for me.

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• Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Me
  • Kid
  • Tales

• I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Time
  • Important
  • Love

• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Winning
  • Baseball
  • Three

• It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Past
  • Feeling
  • Bridge

• There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Problem
  • Effort
  • Worth

• I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • You
  • Said
  • Stock

• The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Home
  • Health
  • Best

• When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Space
  • Water
  • Yourself

• Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Time
  • Period
  • Sun

• In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • American
  • Nature

• I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn't feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn't like it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Guy

• I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Interested
  • Slickness

• My problem is I don't have this incredible, hip image. I'm not some flamboyant or gorgeous-looking guy who's going to sell records based on his image.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Guy
  • Problem
  • Going

• It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Decision
  • Right
  • Percent

• It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • You
  • Respect
  • Manager

• Dogs like to learn stuff, if not from another dog, then people are OK... They love activity, playing, interesting walks, and just belonging, being together.

  

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
  • People
  • Together
  • Interesting

• In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Character
  • Humanity
  • Bombs

• I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning.

  

  Lauren Conrad
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Nice

• I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Music
  • Band
  • Beginning

• I always wanted to be in the limelight, and I found I could get it by being on the stage. That was the beginning of everything for me.

  

  John Garfield
  • Beginning