Vicki Lawrence Quotes
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.
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People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?
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The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
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My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
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I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.
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The most insidious part of fame for April wasn't that other people dehumanized her; it was that she dehumanized herself. She came to see herself not as a person but as a tool.
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There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.
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Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph. . . . Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?
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I am opinionated and want to be part of the conversations.
