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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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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Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.
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I think I was raised by a really good mother.
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We have a 25-year head start for the stories of 'Scorpion.' By the time we get to Season Two and Three, the stuff that happened because of Season One will actually fuel Season Three. So it'll become a self-sustainable show.
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Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.
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I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.
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I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.
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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.
