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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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side.
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I think that Malcolm X was envisioning, even while he was in the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist progressive strategy toward uniting black people across ideological, class lines, denominational religious lines, Christians, as well as Muslims, to build a strong movement for justice and for empowerment.
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Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.
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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.
