Deanna Durbin Quotes

There are two ways to learn anything. An interesting way and a boring way. I like the interesting way.

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• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Men
  • Very
  • Other

• M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Break
  • Roles
  • Pictures

• You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Weird

• There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Eyebrow

• When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • American
  • Results

• Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Story
  • Result
  • Recruiting

• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Song
  • Take

• We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Earth
  • Justice
  • Violence

• I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Eyes
  • Mouth
  • Nose

• I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Love
  • Question
  • Like

• Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Women
  • Me
  • Old

• It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • People
  • Work
  • Change

• I've seen a lot of great players that couldn't get to the top because of horses, and I've seen a lot of normal players that got higher and higher because of horses.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Great
  • Normal
  • Top

• Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

  

  Larry Wall

• The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion.

  

  Bill Kristol

• We no longer have a coherent conception of ourselves, and our universe, and our relation to one another and our world. We no longer know, as the Middle Ages did, where we come from, and where we are going, or why. That is, we don't know what information is relevant, and what information is irrelevant to our lives.

  

  Neil Postman
  • World
  • Why
  • Universe

• The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Success
  • Strange
  • Quick

• To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Life
  • Time
  • Character

• I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Men
  • Father
  • Child

• There are two ways to learn anything. An interesting way and a boring way. I like the interesting way.

  

  Deanna Durbin
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