Rue McClanahan Quotes
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
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People say, 'He doesn't want to be a spokesperson for the gay community.' I do, of course I do, but I want to be a spokesperson for everyone. Ya know, straight people, gay people, bisexual. I don't want it to be limited.
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I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.
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I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going.
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Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.
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Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.
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It's an artist's choice to listen to criticism or not. I'm very sensitive to criticism.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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If many things in the past have gone wrong in the lives of men and in the lives of their communities, it is because both small- and large-scale activities were blundered into without any thought or vision of universal planning.
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I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.
