Melissa Gilbert Quotes
Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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I like to have sleepovers.
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I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.
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I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.
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I have always wondered why more women did not look into owning their own funds. Granted, it is a high stress, high risk business, but it also offers high rewards and control.
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As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.
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Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.
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Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.
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Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.
