Miriam Hopkins famous quotes

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  • How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?

  • Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

  • When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

  • If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.

  • Fifty percent of the game is mental and the other 50 percent is being mental. I've got that part down, no problem.

  • Writing is fifty years behind painting.

  • White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

  • If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to exchange it for the whole Federal mint, the entire treasury! He is saying to us, 'I have in store for you all the resources of heaven. Help yourself.'

  • Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.

  • If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies.