Eileen Ford Quotes
I got everything I wanted from my parents: Brooks Brothers sweaters and Spalding saddle shoes.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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Gene Kelly was one of the greatest dancers of all time and a taskmaster. He sought from you the absolute best - and he got it.
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So many parents these days are totally cool with their kids living on the couch the whole time. It's like a new thing with families. But you've got to leave the nest and get out there.
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I got everything I wanted from my parents: Brooks Brothers sweaters and Spalding saddle shoes.
