Gene Tierney Quotes
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.
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I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
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But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.
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I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.
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If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
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I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther King] had come out of a highly competitive, black, middle-class background.
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They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.
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But we're going to smile and pretend we're fine with the dorky birthmas gifts because people do not get that they can't mush a birthday into christmas.
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I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
