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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Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.
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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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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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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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Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.
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As PM, you have got to do everything from chairing the Cabinet to ceremonial things. You have also got to do the nitty gritty. I do get stuck into the detail.
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Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.
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I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.
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When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.
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Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.
