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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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
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I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.
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As a 10-year-old girl, I would listen to my grandmother discuss issues, and she made a lasting impression on me.
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People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.
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I was offered the Gene Hackman role in 'The Poseidon Adventure' four times, and I turned it down four times. I didn't want to do that movie. I called it the upside down boat.
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I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.
