Vicki Lawrence Quotes
When I hosted 'Win, Lose or Draw,' it was always fascinating to me that no one knew where anything was when they had to draw a destination.
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.
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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
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I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
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When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.
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I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
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Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.
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I can never find the right bras.
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I could never stop eating meat... I'm not a good person to talk about diets. If I had to only eat salads, I'd kill myself!
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When I hosted 'Win, Lose or Draw,' it was always fascinating to me that no one knew where anything was when they had to draw a destination.
