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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• Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

  

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• What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.

  

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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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• I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.

  

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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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• Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

  

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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 a career as an Irish actor, generally it's the case that you move to London. When you make that move, you do tend to stand out.

  

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• Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

  

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• I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment.

  

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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