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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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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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 think the only consistent thing is that I like projects that explore different social themes. 'Our Family Wedding' is a comedy, but it deals with two different cultures coming together. It's also about people letting go.
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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real.
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Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong.
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To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.
