Virginia Graham Quotes
In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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It felt great knowing that I got to help the winningest class in Villanova history, to be able to be a part of that. It's something special.
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I have a lot of tattoos. I probably have over 100 tattoos. I don't know. It's just a mural... a collage.
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If there's anybody that's got better long-ball reaction than that guy -- he turned around and snatched that thing from I don't know where.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night... Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.
