Deanna Durbin Quotes
I think of myself as a singer. The acting is just something I have to do between songs.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
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I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'
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For me, Melania represents America. We're all reluctantly married to Donald Trump now. She is a vehicle to making fun of him. I can't do a Donald Trump impersonation, but I can impersonate her.
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Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
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I hope by the time I'm 30 to have a husband and maybe a baby.
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I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could.
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The competition started in Chicago in the '60s when lead singer Kevin (Cronin) was in a band in south Chicago and the members of STYX were in another and they were archrivals.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.
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Though I know something about British birds I should have been lost and confused among American birds, of which unhappily I know little or nothing. Colonel Roosevelt not only knew more about American birds than I did about British birds, but he knew about British birds also. What he had lacked was an opportunity of hearing their songs, and you cannot get a knowledge of the songs of birds in any other way than by listening to them. We began our walk, and when a song was heard I told him the name of the bird. I noticed that as soon as I mentioned the name it was unnecessary to tell him more. He knew what the bird was like. It was not necessary for him to see it. He knew the kind of bird it was, its habits and appearance. He just wanted to complete his knowledge by hearing the song. He had, too, a very trained ear for bird songs, which cannot be acquired without having spent much time in listening to them. How he had found time in that busy life to acquire this knowledge so thoroughly it is almost impossible to imagine, but there the knowledge and training undoubtedly were. He had one of the most perfectly trained ears for bird songs that I have ever known, so that if three or four birds were singing together he would pick out their songs, distinguish each, and ask to be told each separate name; and when farther on we heard any bird for a second time, he would remember the song from the first telling and be able to name the bird himself.
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I live for myself and answer to nobody.
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I think of myself as a singer. The acting is just something I have to do between songs.
