Valerie Harper Quotes
I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
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Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.
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There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclusion. I'm very happy that the 'Post' can take the responsibility to report on China in a broader and deeper way. I believe the 'Post' must be fair to our readers. We should let our readers see China from more angles and perspectives.
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Food deserts on Chicago's South Side have shrunk some since 2006, and this has provided health benefits to the communities.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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When you want the belt, you have to work for it.
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Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
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Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
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I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.
