Irene Dunne Quotes
Never on any golf course have I been approached by a policeman who said, 'Lady, you can't play with an ordinary golf ball. You're movie star. You'll have to use a coconut for a ball.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
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As a society, we've evolved, and we've recognized that the American family structure has undergone enormous changes. Divorce is all around us, and who among us doesn't know someone who is divorced or has been impacted by divorce. It's not as scandalous as it was.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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God is much greater than anything we can imagine.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.
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And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.
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I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and people I went to school with were into fashion and their clothes, so I lacked a bit of self-belief and confidence... I wasn't really comfortable.
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This is the hardest thing I've ever done. The rehab has not gone as expected.
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Listen carefully to the global warming alarmists, and the main theme that emerges is that what the developed world needs is a large dose of penance. What's remarkable is the extent to which penance sells among a mostly secular audience. What is there to be penitent about?
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I believe in love, children and being a good person.
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Never on any golf course have I been approached by a policeman who said, 'Lady, you can't play with an ordinary golf ball. You're movie star. You'll have to use a coconut for a ball.
