Barbara Hutton Quotes
(On her mother, who died when Hutton was 4) I hardly remember her, but I have missed her all my life.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
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I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
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Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going to work; they can't get used to you ignoring them. And work sometimes gets the message you're not as committed.
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I remember when I wanted every pitch to be a strike.
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My mother and my sister are big Jon Snow fans.
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.
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Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
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The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
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I have so many strong opinions on the entertainment industry, but if I'm in a deli somewhere, and someone says they love that Adam Sandler movie where he dresses up as his twin sister - well, I don't want to make people feel bad for how they feel about things. I'm always courteous, not mean.
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That's the good thing about music: you can sing about people's lives in its stages and feelings. Some songs can put something in context that you couldn't. They can free your mind or can make you think or can be redeeming.
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People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.
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(On her mother, who died when Hutton was 4) I hardly remember her, but I have missed her all my life.
