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They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out. ↗

— Joan Van Ark

#cartoonish #country #her #less #make

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#activities #almost #common #common denominator #denominator

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. ↗

— Pietro Aretino

#better #friends #friendship #granted #greater

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work. ↗

— Asia Argento

#down #enough #get #good #i

Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point. ↗

— Francis Arinze

#beyond #catholic #catholic church #church #desirable

As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death. ↗

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#buried #death #debris #deeply #feel

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them. ↗

— Aristophanes

#get #how #impossible #live #poet

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody. ↗

— Jane Asher

#another #being #deciding #dressing #end

I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing. ↗

— Joan Van Ark

#been #commercials #doing #got #guest

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#dead #department #down #i #in the past