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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There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.
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We are Indians, firstly and lastly.
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An influencer with a small but loyal and engaged following can often have a far greater impact than one with a much larger fan base.
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People always ask me, 'Why did your wife take that extra job?' What they don't know is that four out of five days a week she's going to be home having dinner with us by five o'clock.
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So how was Christmas for you guys? Did you all get lots of nice black t-shirts?
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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.
