Leo McCarey Quotes
You can really call Irene Dunne 'The First Lady of Hollywood', because she's the first real lady Hollywood has ever seen.
Quotes to Explore
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.
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I think it affected me physically and emotionally, yes. I did have my ups and downs, but I actually had more ups and downs after the shots were finished and she was pregnant because of the reality of being pregnant with twins.
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My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.
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There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.
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My diet is very kale-heavy. It's so nutrient-dense. I stay away from fake processed stuff.
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You can really call Irene Dunne 'The First Lady of Hollywood', because she's the first real lady Hollywood has ever seen.
