Loretta Young Quotes
I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand.
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What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.
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I love baseball history, and Wrigley Field is as good as it gets when it comes to that.
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I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.
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When I'm on the road traveling, the things I miss most are my two children and barbecuing with friends. Rack of ribs, lamb and veal are my specialties.
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I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
