Sandy Duncan Quotes
Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.
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Youku Tudou has helped transform how media and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed since our inception.
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Maybe because I bat aggressively and go for big hits at times, people tend to remember my batting. But I have always done well as a stumper, too.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
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On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.
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I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.
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I think often, and never without a certain fear of Nessim's love for Justine. - It coloured his unhappiness with a kind of ecstasy - Yet one touch of humour would have saved him from such dreadful comprehensive suffering.
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My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.
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I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind blew the entire script into the pool, so I had to dry it with a hairdryer.
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Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.
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I want to give back and show my gratitude to the indies. At the same time, cherish the mainstream projects I've been getting.
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Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.
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I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.
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If you want to really learn your playbook, you just do it.
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I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.
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In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one's actions.
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Poor Jenny, bright as a penny!Her equal would be hard to find.She lost one dad and mother,A sister and a brother-But she would make up her mind.
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My mother had people lay hands on me to cast demons out of me when I was 8. Then two or three times when I was in college.
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I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or you're going to get sick!' That's an old wives' tale, but it's like some weird mind control that I would be like that.
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Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.
