Olympia Dukakis Quotes
When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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With a heavy heart, I turned and walked away. I knew that as long as I lived I'd never forget the two little graves and the sacred red fern.
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To fully appreciate the music, you have to see the misery.
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I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.
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When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
