Marie Dressler Quotes
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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There have been some hard times, people around me supported me.
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I've been so fortunate in my career and my own life just to have all these opportunities, and the talk show has always been one of my favorite formats.
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Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.
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The genre of horror is really just a way to manage much larger, much more terrifying realities in our daily worlds.
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The farmer doesn't sow any seed; he chooses it carefully for by experience he knows that the harvest will be of the same Nature of the sowing. The wise man observes the laws of life and lives accordingly. Therefore, you sow in the furrow of life generous and beneficial procedures for all that according to the law your harvest, being good will make your life better.
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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
