Eve Arden Quotes
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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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
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I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
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It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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God does arithmetic.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?
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Every year, our white intruders become more greedy, exacting, oppressive, and overbearing. Every year, contentions spring up between them and our people, and when blood is shed, we have to make atonement, whether right or wrong, at the cost of the lives of our greatest chiefs and the yielding up of large tracts of our lands.
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My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
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I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show.
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I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
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My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.
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If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don't believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn't believe in you and your future, to hell with them.
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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.
