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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The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.
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I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith.
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You know if you're in Rome, live in the Roman way. I grew up there, I was born there, and so I should follow its guidelines, live like a Korean. And I really love Korea. I grew up listening to Korean music, and was able to get to where I am because of it.
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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.
