Kay Arthur Quotes
You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.
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After you get what you want you don't want it.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.
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People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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I'm one of those tall, lanky, awkward kids.
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Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.
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My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.
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The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.
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I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.
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When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.
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As long as I could remember, I had looked forward to a handful of wonderful events - a total eclipse of the sun, the return of Halley's Comet, and the first trip to the Moon. I've still never seen that eclipse, and Halley's comet was a disappointment, but my sense of wonder was diamond-bright on that July 20, 1969.
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You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.
