Alice Duer Miller Quotes
Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.
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Japan is very much a TV-centred entertainment industry. So when you talk about big stars in Japan, generally they are people who are on television. I work mostly in movies.
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No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.
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Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to include young people in policies, programmes and decision-making processes that benefit their futures and ours.
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Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.
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Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.
