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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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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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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A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.
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The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
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What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
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I think a lot of the people who write about me think that if they had to write fewer interviews then they would transcribe their life-story and it would be a big success. Or should be.
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Women, you need to understand something. Men are not as dumb as you think they are.
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I lead a very boring, normal life.
