Judy Holliday Quotes
I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.
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As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.
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You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.
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80: Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
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Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
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At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school - you'll be tested; we gotta pass it.
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I am in love with stories of underdogs.
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I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.
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Peace is our natural state of being.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.
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There's a whole advantage being an executive as an artist.
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It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.
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I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.
