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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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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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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It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.
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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'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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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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I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?
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There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
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My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
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The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
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I am an economist, not an astrologer.
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In doing my podcast, I do find that I tend to try out bits that I then try on stage later that day. If they work, great, and if they don't, I regret having talked about it on the podcast.
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I don't want to sound too spiritual, but when you are true to yourself and follow through with things that connect with you meaningfully, somehow things fall into place.
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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I like the idea of, not shocking people, but just throwing people off. Doing something that makes people go, 'Whoa, whoa, she did that next? Wow, didn't think she was gonna do something like that next.'
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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.
