Eve Arden Quotes
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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I'm an iPod person.
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When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
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I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best.
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If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
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I'm the most competitive person you'll ever meet.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.
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As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.
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Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
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It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.
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I think of theater as a place of instructive entertainment where you can sit and learn to laugh or cry. I'm not going to ever contribute to delinquency in my roles, either adult or juvenile delinquency; I think too much of the public.
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My friends will tell you that I'm a very mild person.
