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

• Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Political

• Being an artist doesn't just mean you have a song. That doesn't make you an artist. The word 'artist' means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists - Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West - are doing the most.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• I love heels. I remember the first time I saw a pair of heels my mum said: 'You're not wearing those. They're too high!'

  

  Dionne Bromfield
  • Time
  • Remember
  • High

• All reading was done in the early years out loud, there was no such thing as silent reading because you had to read out loud in order to figure out you know, where was a word ending and where is the word beginning.

  

  Nicholas G. Carr
  • Reading
  • Beginning
  • Ending

• Why should I crowd the world with my opinions? Live and let live. That's it. Let people have their own opinions, and you just keep yours to yourself. There are too many opinions - some unnecessary, some great, some ridiculously stupid - so I think I rather not say anything and keep my opinions to myself.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• 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