Barbara Eden Quotes
I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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I intend to buy 'The New York Times.' Please don't take it as a joke.
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If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards.
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I loved every minute of working in wardrobe. But I love being an actress so much more. I don't think I was very good in costume, so it's better that I prefer being an actress.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
