Walter Cronkite Quotes
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
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I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
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Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?
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Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
