Margaret O'Brien Quotes
I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.
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I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
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When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
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I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.
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No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.
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The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
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I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.
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I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.
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If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.
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Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
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When I started Teach For America as a college senior, I sensed that there were thousands of talented, driven college students and recent grads who were searching for a way to make a real difference in the world.
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Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.
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We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.
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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
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An attack on the scale of Sept. 11 would rock the markets and the economy.
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The 2nd of April (1891) at 9:45 a.m. Max Ernst had his first contact with the sensible world, when he came out of the egg which his mother had laid in an eagle's nest and which the bird had brooded for seven years.
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A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
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Men, we don't need you in shining armor. We just need you a little bit brave, just a little bit brave.
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And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
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I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.
