Stockard Channing (Susan Antonia Williams Stockard) Quotes
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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I am healthy and happy.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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I've built my wardrobe color palette around red, so I'm happy with it, but I do get pangs when I see beautiful brunettes. I've already been blue, green, black, and blonde.
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A soulmate is someone who you could spend a great deal of time with just sitting on a sofa and feel happy. You don't need fanfare. You don't need to go out to expensive restaurants.
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Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
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Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.
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The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely any one at all escapes.
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Men like Jackson were so upright and honest-seeming, but Hooch knew that there wasn’t no such thing as a good man, just a man who wasn’t bought yet, or wasn’t in deep enough trouble, or didn’t have the guts to reach out and take what he wanted. That’s all that virtue ever boiled down to, so far as Hooch ever saw in his life.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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You ask yourself 'What is love? Am I in love?', when what you should be asking is, 'What is not love?', ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?
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There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
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A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.
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I always wrote songs. Elementary school, middle school. It didn't feel more creative than speaking. It was just normal to do that.
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The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.
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I like playing a guy who wears pants as opposed to shorts.
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Of course you'll live, red-haired lady of my heart: in the twentieth century grief lasts at most a year.
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I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.
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I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.
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It's exciting for me to be home in California where I'm from and to be working with Victoria's Secret.
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I lead a very boring, normal life.
