Loni Anderson Quotes
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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I am really addicted to music.
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My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
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If the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
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Sometimes Christians live in a terror of universal obligation: AIDS over here, people to be saved over here, a crushing sense of low-level guilt every day of our lives. Question to ask: Where has God put me right now? I need to say no to a whole bunch of other things because if I don't say no I can't say yes to others.
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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.
