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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The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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I want to make a poem of my life.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.
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Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.
