Tyne Daly Quotes
I wish it was possible to do the work and not have to talk about it, but it is traditional in the theater to go into the village square and bang the drum and say, 'Come see this show, come see this show.'
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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Isolationism is over.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
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One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
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You're always homesick. There's always something about home that's special. But I'm not a things person. I'm not attached to my things.
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
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I wish it was possible to do the work and not have to talk about it, but it is traditional in the theater to go into the village square and bang the drum and say, 'Come see this show, come see this show.'
