Irene Dunne Quotes
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
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I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
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I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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I like things simple.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.
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I'm a Virgo, and I know what I like.
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To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
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It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.
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The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
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I do wanna get married. It just sounds great. You get to go grocery shopping together, rent videos, and the kissing and the hugging and the kissing and the hugging under the cozy covers. Mmmm! But sometimes I worry that I don't wanna get married as much as I want to get dipped in a vat of warm, rising bread dough. That might feel pretty good, too.
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
