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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When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.
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There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
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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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Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
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In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
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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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It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.
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I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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I feel like I could carry a movie or a show, and I'll mess up here and there, and I'll learn from those things.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
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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.
