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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For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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Donald Trump himself has financial ties to oligarchs in Russia who are close to Putin.
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If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
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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.
