Alice Duer Miller Quotes

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

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• I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

  

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• The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.

  

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• When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

  

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• I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.

  

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• I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.

  

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• I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!

  

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• The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.

  

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• The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.

  

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• You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.

  

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• Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.

  

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• She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.

  

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• It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

  

  Alice Duer Miller
  • She
  • Woman
  • Moron