Marie Osmond Quotes
I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.
Quotes to Explore
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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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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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
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In 2001, Katie Couric told 'Today Show' audiences that 7 percent of Americans doubt the moon landing happened - that it was staged in the Nevada desert.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.
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This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
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I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.
