Joyce DeWitt Quotes
Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.
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Our government should not be spying on the electronic communications of American citizens. Nor should our iPhones or Android devices be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures.
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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I was scared to fly for a long time.
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Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
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In terms of pace, I think I just have to revisit my relationship with expectations. That has a little bit to do with comparing ourselves to other people and seeing other people's journey and seeing how they had a certain success at a certain age.
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I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
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In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!
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Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.
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And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.
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When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.
