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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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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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.
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You got your glory and you paid for it all, you take your pension in loneliness and alcohol.
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Miss Fontanne and I rehearse all the time. Even after we leave the theater, we rehearse. We sleep in the same bed. We have a script on our hands when we go to bed. You can't come and tell us to stop rehearsing after eight hours.
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You get very comfortable doing the open mic circuit, turning up to the same places and playing to 20 people. In that situation, it won't matter if you aren't great on that night because no one will really remember who you are. Then suddenly you are doing rooms to 400 people and you have to up your game.
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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.
