Swoosie Kurtz Quotes
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
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I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.
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I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.
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Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.
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I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'
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It worked!
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I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness in this, a certain audacity, to this announcement. I know that I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington, but I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change. People who love their country can change it.
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Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.
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My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.
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The master never let a statement about God go unchallenged. All God statements were poetic or symbolic expressions of the Unknowable; people, however, foolishly took them as literal descriptions of the divine.
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Don't kiss a man who hasn't shaved.
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For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you’re depressed.Will you ever feel ok?
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I think if something's good and you believe in it, and you care about it, and you give it love and nurture it, it's going to happen.
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I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau.
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At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
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I moved to New York for school right after I turned 18, but I started getting into trouble - so I went home to L.A. to regroup.
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Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
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It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26.
