Cloris Leachman Quotes
I make fun whenever I go. If I go to restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I love to push myself.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
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Short of spending $10,000, there is nothing you can do to your head to hide the fact that you're going bald.
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I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
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I was in a bookstore one afternoon, and I stumbled across this book called 'A Guide to Film Schools.' I always loved movies growing up and had never even conceived that it was something you could do for a living. Realizing most of them were in Los Angeles and knowing that was warm, I ended up applying.
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I make fun whenever I go. If I go to restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it.
