Vicki Lawrence Quotes
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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We can make sacrifices to fight Islamic State, but the international coalition has to support us.
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If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.
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Circumstance and settings are of no importance. One day this sense of emptiness and remorse submerges you. Then , like a tide, it ebbs and disappears. But in the end it returns in force, and she couldn’t shake it off. Nor could I?
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I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.
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I don't think quotas are necessarily an evil. I think when we look at industry in general back to the '60s and the '50s, the way more diverse people like my dad and mom's generation were able to break into industry was because of affirmation action, because of quotas.
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I had a hit talk show. I just wasn't working for the right people.
