Marcia Wallace Quotes
I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
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What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eastwood. I love the camera angles. I love the music.
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It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.
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All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.
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We must not look for some kind of Messiah.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.
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I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.
