Irene Dunne Quotes
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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I'm a little bit of a control freak.
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The ability of Texas Republicans to be effective in Congress is based on having at least 218 Republicans in the House.
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Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.
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Persistence is half the battle. That's what I love about independent movies. They don't have to be made. There's no studio with an agenda to set up a franchise like 'Batman' or to make a vehicle for a celebrity actor. My films are made because I love the process.
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With the precision of a hummingbird's heart Was the lord of the monarch butterflies One-time ruler of the world of art
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The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate.
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My private life is quiet.
