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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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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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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There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.
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When you have people catering to you non-stop, you lose it. You need someone to kick you in the butt every now and then!
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.
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If I'm going to work, I want to work with my wife.
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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.
