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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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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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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When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough - until Eminem liked it.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.
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Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.
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Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.
