Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes
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I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to work with, but there's something about Quentin, and one of my all-time favorite films is 'Kill Bill.' Something along those lines would be such a blast.
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I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
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As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
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I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
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I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves. Break the cycle.
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If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
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Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.
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I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.
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I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'
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I was working - just a regular working-class guy - but, at the same time, always aspired to do music.
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I know so many amazing actors who don't get work... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all the time. The industry is just not fair in that way.
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It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
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In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century.
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I was kind of lucky because I was fit and healthy when I was in my teens, got a bit wild in my 20s, and stopped round about my 30s.
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Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
