Angie Dickinson Quotes
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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I'm still proud of who I am, of my youth, and I feel like now, as individuals, we begin to realise that we can change the future. We all have to participate.
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When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then and there: the exchange, the art, the communication. Performance is in the moment.
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Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself.
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If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.
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There is no such thing as pure art. It's a bourgeois conceit.
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Growing older doesn't bother me.
