Melvyn Douglas Quotes
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.
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'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
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I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.
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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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I wouldn't want to be a James Bond.
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Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.
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Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.
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I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
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Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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I've always thought that there is a great female James Bond movie to be done. I'm not literally calling her Jane Bond, I mean, but a female secret agent.
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In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
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I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: 'strength.'
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Never try to help God fulfill His word.
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Everyday epiphanies encourage us to cherish everything. Today a new sun has risen. Everything lives. Everything can speak to your soul passionately if you will be still enough to listen. "You have to count on living every single day in a way YOU believe will make YOU feel good about YOUR life," actress Jane Seymour suggests, "so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content.
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Why do you like to cuss? Everybody likes to cuss. I don’t. They don’t call you Mr. Excitement for nothing.
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Look at the way things are now. Just a set of crab in barrel and all of a sudden one crab just appear with a jacket and tie and telling everybody that he is not a crab any more. Ridiculous little place with ridiculous little people.
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Life is wonderful when you're the one to write it.
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Let's give discredit where discredit is due.
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Your word is your bond.
