Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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I ended the war a horse ahead.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
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While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
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I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.
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If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.
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Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.
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I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.
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There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.
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[Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside.
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If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.
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If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.
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If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!
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What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race - they don't exclude anyone.
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If you're with someone, it's because you're moving in the same direction, and you both are looking for the same thing. Both of you have to share the same concept of what a relationship means.
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Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.
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God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
