Edna Ferber Quotes
It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
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As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.
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Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
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I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.
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It's been so long since I've really truly felt what it's like to live life without substances to help. Massive struggle that's natural to one's health, but with addiction in my blood I play the cards I was dealt.
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You cannot experience the death of anybody
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
