Ogden Nash Quotes
They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.
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Nothing would please me more than if they were released in the next few days, but I don't want to raise the hopes of people detained.
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Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.
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I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
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I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.
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They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
