Judy Garland Quotes
As for my feelings toward "Over the Rainbow", it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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Working with Disney is really and truly like working with a family. Everyone is so supportive and so wonderful. I've worked with Disney since I was twelve, and they've given me so many opportunities that I'll forever be grateful for.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
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If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
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I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.
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No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.
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I think it always feels riskier and scarier to go after something you really love and want because the rejection and failure hurts more.
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I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
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Take care of my heart won't you, Sophie? It's a little odd having it outside my body-but I'm planning to steal yours to make up for it.
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As for my feelings toward "Over the Rainbow", it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.
