W. C. Fields Quotes
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.
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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
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My dream is to see India as a nation of well-looked-after and respected sportspeople in all fields.
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The early stage of pregnancy for me is quite hard to hide.
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No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
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Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.
