Gene Tierney Quotes
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, 'Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?'
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Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.
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I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
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It's hard to get the downtrodden working-class wifey sometimes because 'You don't look like it'. Well, that's weird because I grew up on a scheme in Paisley. But everyone's got a viewpoint about what you should look like, and it's tainted by prejudices and assumptions.
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As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.
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In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
