John W. Gardner Quotes
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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My cousin is gay, I always tell him that in our family tree, he's in the fruit section.
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I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget was that he also advocated, sternly and austerely, that one must be able to go through all that - and then articulate it.
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Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.
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When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.
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Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
