Pat Benatar Quotes
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
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If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
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I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
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I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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When we think of entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare immediately come to mind. But by any fair standard, the holy trinity of United States social policy should also include the mortgage-interest deduction - an enormous benefit that has also become politically untouchable.
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It can be difficult for people to talk about it, because there still is that stigma around mental illness. But I would encourage people to do that, because they'll be surprised once they do 'come out' how many other people have had similar experiences.
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Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
