Madeleine de Souvre Quotes
Virtue is not always where it seems to be. People sometimes acknowledge favors only to maintain their reputations, and to make themselves more impudently ungrateful for favors that they do not wish to acknowledge.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.
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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.
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I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends.
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The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.
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Virtue is not always where it seems to be. People sometimes acknowledge favors only to maintain their reputations, and to make themselves more impudently ungrateful for favors that they do not wish to acknowledge.
