Lillian Gish Quotes
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Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.
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My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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I'd be happy if, during my mandate, the Palestinian state existed.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
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I am a Republican because the United States is a republic, and the views we hold represent the foundation our country was built on so many years ago.
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It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.
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Fashion is so mass-produced now; I hope there will come a refocus on how people see couture. And I would also hope for a new focus on the craft.
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Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.
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I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-consciousness that you see in photographs of children, without the self-awareness that adults generally feel.
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Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.
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The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.
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We’ve got to resist the false trap that says either there should be no accountability for police or that every police officer is suspect no matter what they do.
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Alas! that all we loved of him should be, But for our grief, as if it had not been, And grief itself be mortal! Woe is me! Whence are we, and why are we? of what scene The actors or spectators?
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The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.
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If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.
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I do love listening to singles casually, but that moment, the thing I'm mining the singles for, is something that makes me dig deeper and find a layered offering that allows for discovery after discovery.
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If you're caught acting, nobody believes you.
