Cybill Shepherd Quotes
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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It's frightening and glamorous and exciting at the same time. I wouldn't change it for anything! After the bad and sad times in my life, it's something I want to do.
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Luckily, I was raised by a kind of gypsy family, which is why I always get along better with people who worked in circuses than with kids of other actors. My mom was so carefree with us in a beautiful way. We were used to sleeping anywhere.
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The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.
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I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
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It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.
