Myrna Loy (Myrna Adele Williams) Quotes
I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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MacAllister wasn’t always right, but he was smart enough to know that. He was willing to change his mind when the evidence pointed in a different direction. That fact alone put MacAllister very nearly in a class by himself.
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A slight throbbing about the temples told me that this discussion had reached saturation point.
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Birthdays was the worst days; now we sip champagne when we're thirsty.
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I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.
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It's hard when something's bigged up because you want people to watch it, so you have to promote it. It'd be great if it was the old-fashioned days when there was no press, and you just switched on and thought, 'Oh, God, what's going on?'
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I had CNN on in my hotel room every day while we were filming the pilot for 'The Originals.'
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I didn't know initially whether I'd like doing TV and whether I'd be able to work with other people. I've always done my own thing. I've never put myself into that situation, but it's the most fun I've had in years.
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It's not a panacea: there are problems in the world that technology can't fix. You can't fix water shortages. You can't storm a Ministry of the Interior with a cell phone. You can't magically create leaders and institutions overnight. You can't eat it. You can't shield a bullet.
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We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.
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I believe in workers' rights when people are doing a good job.
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I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.
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An honest, bold, loyal, and within its limits extremely highbrow attempt to produce through common ownership a society of the Free and Equal, produced a tyrant and a totalitarian state;…
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Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
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On 'Phoenix,' I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It's called 'Phoenix' because it's talking about dying - but when a phoenix dies, it's reborn from its own ashes. I related to that.
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I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to rap about the streets, because that's what happens there.
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That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with.
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I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.
