Sally Field Quotes

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

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• My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

  

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• There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

  

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• I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

  

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• We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.

  

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• I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.

  

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• Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

  

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• We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.

  

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• A few honest men are better than numbers.

  

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• The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

  

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• With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.

  

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• Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

  

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• To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

  

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• That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.

  

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• When I'm at work, I'm remembering what I forgot to do for the kids, and when I'm with the kids, I'm remembering what I forgot to do at work.

  

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• Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.

  

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• I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could play an art critic-I could play the guy next door. I am the guy next door. I could play Catholic, Jewish, Protestant. As a matter of fact, when I did The Odd Couple, I would do it a different way each night. On Monday I'd be Jewish, Tuesday Italian, Wednesday Irish-German-and I would mix them up. I did that to amuse myself, and it always worked.

  

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• Oracle will continue to componentize all of its solutions so we can work in a heterogeneous environment.

  

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• To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

  

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• Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

  

  Sally Field
  • She
  • Young
  • Lawyer