Ethel Barrymore Quotes
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
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I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.
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If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women students to take leaves of absence if they want to have children early.
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Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees quit, you can't run yourself. If I can't cut hair, why open a barbershop?
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I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.
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I always try to live in the moment.
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When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.
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I would love to be a mum if I'm blessed to have children. My wife and I have those plans.
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What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.
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I am decidedly unfriendly during a golf game, from the first hole to the last.
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Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
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This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
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When Henry Ford said, 'The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black,' he was not joking.
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When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!
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I'm friends with Elizabeth Banks - she's a great actress but not actressy at all. She's very cool. I adore her.
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I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year.
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The best time to make friends is before you need them.
