Eve Arden Quotes
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If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter.
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Everyone from Pullman porters to hostesses at swank New York parties will tell me they always watch 'Miss Brooks' on Friday night.
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In the theater, I could envision myself as wonderful because of the audience response to my lines.
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I've worked with a lot of great glamorous girls in movies and the theater. And I'll admit, I've often thought it would be wonderful to be a femme fatale. But then I'd always come back to thinking that if they only had what I've had - a family, real love, an anchor - they would have been so much happier during all the hours when the marquees and the floodlights are dark.
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Life is full of miracles, but they're not always the ones we pray for.
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'Widow' is a word I never thought would describe me, but I had to learn to deal with that.
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In a sense, children who live on a farm become sophisticated, too - but about more important things.
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I'm finding writing very fascinating.
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None of the characters I played was very close to me as a real person.
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The better the teacher, the better the future of America.
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I can't seem to say, 'You great big wonderful man, you,' without hamming it up somehow.
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So many people accept the negative. They are constantly blinded by that negative thing.
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I knew my own mother had been in the theater for a while and had taught children, because she used to teach me the pieces that she taught them, but she did much more than that.
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I've always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.
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I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.
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As for Hollywood children, their social life can get a little overboard, just like their parents can. Living in town, you attend so many functions.
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Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.
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You couldn't keep me out of the school plays, the song and dance skits.
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I couldn't stand seeing myself on the screen.
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If I'm in a serious play, I often think to myself, 'I could make that line funny.'
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The thing to do is to build a fortress within yourself.
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I don't have a Pollyana attitude toward life that claims everything is lovely.
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I've worked with a lot of great, glamorous girls in movies and the theater. They would always give their last ounce to get where they wanted to be.
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My friends will tell you that I'm a very mild person.