Arthur Desmond Quotes
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I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it.
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I want them to believe I have a vision for the state of New Jersey.
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My girlfriend has been the ice.
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Women find little pleasure in the society of women.
