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If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am! ↗

— Helen Reddy

#girlfriends #going #here #hollywood #i

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#america #arrived #bad #company #dreadful

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#century #generation #hasn #heard #music

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant. ↗

— Orville Redenbacher

#continuously #day #dried #efficient #efficient way

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? ↗

— Robert Redford

#abroad #category #defend #defense #environment

I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book. ↗

— Robert Redford

#big deal #book #childhood #deal #get

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions. ↗

— Robert Redford

#new #new ideas #starved #visions #voices

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way. ↗

— Robert Redford

#audience #big #candy #consciousness #cotton

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on. ↗

— Robert Redford

#know #move #move on #never #past

Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end. ↗

— Robert Redford

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