Sally Field Quotes
I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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I think NXT has opened up the doors for a lot of guys to come in and create different opportunities.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world. There was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners.
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The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.
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If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.
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I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
