Doris Day Quotes
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I am turning into the person I knew I would.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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My dream has always been to inspire young girls to see their own power and follow big dreams and realize that they have potential.
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When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
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I like writing historical fiction.
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My dream role would be a role that is entertaining and 'massy,' and it should be able to make people laugh and cry and make the audience scared of me and then make them fall in love with me again.
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Acting is the most fun. I like to do it and it's great that I can still do that, but you know, you don't really have a lot of control over things, so it's real hit or miss.
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I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.
