Barbara Bel Geddes Quotes
There is a time for everything - a time for being born and a time for coming of age. There is a time for death, too.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
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Love has no age.
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My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.
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Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
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We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.
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The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.
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Self-parody is the first portent of age.
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I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my father. My mother is 90 percent blind and deaf. She left and moved all the way to California. So I left my two older sisters and my father behind at the age of eleven and moved cross-country to take care of her.
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Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.
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I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.
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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
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If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.
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Repentance is a divine gift, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. It points us to freedom, confidence, and peace. Rather than interrupting the celebration, the gift of repentance is the cause for true celebration.
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I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
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Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.
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There is a time for everything - a time for being born and a time for coming of age. There is a time for death, too.
