Kaye Ballard Quotes
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
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I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
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No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.
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There is something false in this search for a purely feminine writing style. Language, such as it is, is inherited from a masculine society, and it contains many male prejudices. We must rid language of all that. Still, a language is not something created artificially; the proletariat can't use a different language from the bourgeoisie, even if they use it differently, even if from time to time they invent something, technical words or even a kind of worker's slang, which can be very beautiful and very rich. Women can do that as well, enrich their language, clean it up.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.
