Elaine Stritch Quotes
I don't want to see my family all the time, and they're delighted, I'm sure, to be aware of that.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
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It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
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The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
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Every single moment shapes our future. Be intentional. Live on purpose!
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I'm not even on Facebook. I've got enough friends I never see. You know how you have a lot of friends you never call? I don't have time for new friends, and I don't want to be friends with someone only online.
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You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.
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Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.
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Milk Duds and Hot Tamales are what I love.
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I don't want to see my family all the time, and they're delighted, I'm sure, to be aware of that.
