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 was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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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 read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.
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I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.
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Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.
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If my accomplishments frighten someone, it's nothing to do with me - that's to do with them. But the men who are in my life see me as a person - as a woman - not as a character I've played.
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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.
