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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We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
