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've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.
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Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
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Good advice is priceless. Not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not imaginary, but practical. Not based on fear, but on possibility. Not designed to make you feel better, designed to make you better. Seek it out and embrace the true friends that care enough to risk sharing it. I'm not sure what takes more guts-giving it or getting it.
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In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
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My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
