Elaine Stritch Quotes
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My first album was completed in three months.
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By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
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My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to buy it first and listen to it and let me know if I could have it.
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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
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To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a sound, but I think the heart of that's still the same. It's still American music.
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One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.
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I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.
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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
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If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
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If you go to a theme park, there will be so many rides. You will get an exciting experience in each of them. Like that, every film is an experience that entertains you. Some films will touch your heart. Some will touch you emotionally. There is nothing more than that.
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I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
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A relationship is sent by God and accident.
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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
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If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
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They thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, 'I'm going to Hollywood.' Nobody thought I could make it.
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To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.
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I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.
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If I can help one person, why wouldn't I?
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Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.
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You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
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I'm a big guy: I look like a linebacker, you know? But no one cares, really, that I'm educated. I have a copy of 'Fire Next Time' by James Baldwin in my bag. I have an Ibsen play in there, too. I have to walk through this world with that duality all the time, that I live in two different worlds.
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I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.
