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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We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
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If you want me to be straight, gay, into monkeys, dating Kylie, whatever, I'm happy for people to project whatever onto me!
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I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.
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All those years of playing, I was scared to talk in front of a mike. I sang backup with Question Mark, and it gave me courage.
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I pray thee let me and my fellow haveA haire of the dog that bit us last night.
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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.