Alice Duer Miller Quotes
Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.
Alice Duer Miller
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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.
A. Philip Randolph
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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.'
Eddie Marsan
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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.
Warren Spector
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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.
Oliver North
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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.
Finn Jones
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
Pankaj Mishra
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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.
Saint Patrick
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
Caitlyn Jenner
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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.
Viggo Mortensen
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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.
Rachael Ray
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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.
Eddie Marsan
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
Jackson Pollock
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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.
Barry Humphries
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
Walter Koenig
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
Oprah Winfrey
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
Victoria Moran
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
Finn Jones
