Olympia Dukakis Quotes
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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I'm pretty goofy. I laugh at my own jokes.
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To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.
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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. The special secret it seems to me is summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
