Elaine Stritch Quotes
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.
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You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
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To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
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We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
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I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to come see me in this?' And if I wouldn't want them to see it, then it's not something that I should immortalize myself on film in.
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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
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My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.
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Law and order comes from having respect for one another.
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Most REAL change is slow. Happiness and joy are the purpose of life. If we know that the future will be very dark or painful, then we lose our determination to live. Therefore, life is something based on hope.
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Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
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I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.
