Arlene Francis Quotes
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.
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Federal waste is a grave disservice to hardworking taxpayers across our great nation, and yet our governmental bureaucracies are riddled with it - whether through unnecessary, duplicative, inefficient, outdated, or failed agencies and programs.
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(論國民黨) 有很多的頑固分子，他們是頑固專門學校畢業的。他們今天頑固，明天頑固，後天還是頑固。什麼叫頑固？固者硬也，頑者，今天、明天、後天都不進步之謂也。這樣的人，就叫做頑固分子。要使這樣的頑固分子聽我們的話，不是一件容易的事情。
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I'm out of my mind! Somebody told me that a long time ago. Some idiot! laughs … In a dream. I don't want to think about dreams now.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
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The two most important people in animation are Winsor McCay and Walt Disney, and I'm not sure which should go first.
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You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.
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I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.
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Life is the best party I've ever been invited to.
