Marcia Strassman Quotes

I sang all the time, and finally, my mother looked at me and said: 'I have a friend in New York who gives singing lessons. If she says you can sing, you can take lessons. If you can't sing, I never want you to open your mouth again as long as you live.'

Marcia Strassman

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• It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.

  

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• I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.

  

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• If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.

  

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• The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation.

  

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• This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

  

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• Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.

  

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• It ain't over till it's over.

  

  Yogi Berra
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• The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.

  

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• The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

  

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• There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

  

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• The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

  

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• Millennials - who will soon be a full one-third of American adults - may be especially ready to become engaged in politics with a candidate who wants to give them a government that will leave them alone and get its finances in order so that they don't inherit an economic collapse.

  

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• I am one of the endangered species: people who still write in meter and rime.

  

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• Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen.

  

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• Judy Garland, Doris Day, and Gene Kelly were all big influences growing up from all of the films. I'm also a huge folk music fan - Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan have influenced a lot of how music can inspire change in our world.

  

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• No one can forecast the economy with certainty.

  

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• Musicians have always adopted Macs.

  

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• I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character.

  

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• Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

  

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• I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.

  

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• There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

  

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• Some people would say I've made it now.

  

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• I sang all the time, and finally, my mother looked at me and said: 'I have a friend in New York who gives singing lessons. If she says you can sing, you can take lessons. If you can't sing, I never want you to open your mouth again as long as you live.'

  

  Marcia Strassman
  • Mother
  • Friend
  • Singing