Celeste Holm Quotes
The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
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I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.
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Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.
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The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it's too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.
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We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
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I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.
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Happiness does not await us all. One needn’t be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.
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I love cakes. Chocolate and coconut cakes. I love that combination!
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For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.
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The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.
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I've dedicated more than 15 years to this theater and television thing; I want to spend the next 10, 15 years or so devoted to music.
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I always try to stay in the moment, in real life and in acting.
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My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.
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People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.
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As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.
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Any time I hear certain songs I put in a movie, I have to not listen to them anymore because I associate them with that movie. They take on that association rather than the association I had when I first heard them. So it's kinda bittersweet to put a song in a movie, honestly.
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Some people who hated Americans set out to kill a lot of us and they succeeded [on 9/11]....We're trying to protect ourselves with more weapons. We have to do it, I guess, but it might be better if we figured out how to behave as a nation in a way that wouldn't make so many people in the world want to kill us.
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The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.
