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 think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
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I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me.
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Let's hope that Ken Oosterbroek will be the last person to die.
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When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.
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You're going to watch a person suffer in agony while somebody's debating?
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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.
