Willard Scott Quotes
Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
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I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.
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My mother is going to get earrings of my head. Some will be dipped in silver, some will be dipped in gold, and I will hand them out to everyone I know.
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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
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When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
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If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.
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If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.
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If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.
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My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
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We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.
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J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.
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In every area, working with what you habitually reject is one of the best ways to facilitate growth and transformation.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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Everyone knows I'm just a big, good-natured slob.
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Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.
