Carol Loomis Quotes
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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I'm cranky.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.
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A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't thrillers, and they don't move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page.
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Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.
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With a few exceptions, birds are not to be trusted; it is not normal to have such soft, vulnerable bodies bookended with slashing beaks and razor-sharp claws. It is as unnatural as an armed marshmallow.
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I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen. He could bullet that ball 70 yards.
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We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.
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My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
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Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny – you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.
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'English Rose' - what does that actually mean? That I am pale? That I am English, maybe? They are going to say that about any actress from this country!
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There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.
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I was a regular dork. I was a kid who was scrawny and all that, and probably kind of dumb or something. I wasn't unordinary; I wasn't extraordinary.
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The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
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My girlfriend has crabs, I bought her fishnet stockings.
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I didn't want to be a 'Fortune' writer who was constrained in any way.
