Elaine Stritch Quotes
I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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Prayer ardent opens heaven.
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All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.
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The one place I never felt at all comfortable in the military was in private circles of conversation. There's a tendency, especially among young men, to objectify and denigrate women behind closed doors.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.
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I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.
