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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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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Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.
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It's not my job to hold your hand. It's my job to take motivated people and show them how to become better.
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We commissioned an independent statutory economic body - the Productivity Commission - to review the possibility of funding a disability scheme. The commission returned with a view that it could. Then it becomes an issue of national will.
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When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream in music.
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If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee.
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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.
