Melissa Gilbert Quotes
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
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It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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Sometimes I feel edgy, sometimes I feel like I want to wear a bright, bold beautiful color.
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When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
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Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.
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Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
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At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.'
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Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
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If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.
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I really want to start playing basketball. I actually bought a new basketball.
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
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My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain.
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I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.
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I don't want to build a bunch of homes and sit on them.
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To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.
