Ava Gardner Quotes
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I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
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I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
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To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
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When I'm doing kitchen planning as well as bathroom design, I try to walk through the day with the homeowner. If we're talking about a kitchen, it will be: So, we are walking in with the groceries. When we are taking them out of the car, where will they go? What is the distance to fridge, to pantry?
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
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I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.
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If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.
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Significant steps have been taken since 9-11 to protect out country here at home, but much remains to be done, Americans from across the political spectrum must come together to develop the next phase of our efforts to counter global terror.
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The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.
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I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.
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Actors usually tend to gravitate towards the evil things that stretch them.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.
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I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.
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Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
