Irene Dunne Quotes
When I found myself riding in a lift with the great showman, I was too much too frightened even to look at him, much less get off at the same floor.
Quotes to Explore
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Imagination rules the world.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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History's a resource.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it.
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I'm really interested in older women, to be honest, because they have lived a life that I've not yet lived. So I really want to learn from them, and I think culturally we tend to dispose of women once they get to a certain age and they don't look a certain way.
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All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success. Even Adele, and the people that you wouldn't put in the same category as a gangster rapper. These women have exposed their vulnerabilities, demons, and things that have hurt them.
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It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.
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When I found myself riding in a lift with the great showman, I was too much too frightened even to look at him, much less get off at the same floor.
