Loretta Young Quotes
When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
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When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
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Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.
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No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
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I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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I've always just had troubles with my family because I'm psychotic. It had nothing to do with that.
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The story of 'A Dog's Purpose' flowed into me a set piece. The entire book was just there, as if I were connected to a streaming service, a novel wholly formed of character and plot. This has never happened to me before or since. I prayed for help and I got it. A gift.
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An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.
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I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.
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Hugh Grant has that magic in real life, so when he's saying these lines, 'It's always been you,' it's just devastating.
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When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.
