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You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.

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Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.
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I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state.
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It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.
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We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.
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I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.
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My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.
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With my first two husbands, I always kinda sensed they thought there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was too flighty or whatever.
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My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.
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Our loss was very heavy, especially in the officers. Capt. Sale, of Co. E, Duke's regt, was among the killed, making the third Capt. that has been killed in that company.
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Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.
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John Breaux
I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.
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I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.
Jay London
Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?
Andrew Shue
When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Accept loss forever.
Jack Kerouac
Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience.
Gustav Krupp
I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.
Todd Solondz
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
Annie Dillard
At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.
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When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.
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When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.
Andrew Shue
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
Mary Wortley Montagu
I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.
Robert Torricelli
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
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This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.
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We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.
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The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.
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Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
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You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.
Robin Gibb
I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything.
Michelle Williams
Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
James Hillman
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
Adelbert von Chamisso
To win you have to risk loss.
Jean-Claude Killy
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
Sarah Fielding
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Robert Southey
What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?
William Broome
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
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It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address the frustration, the loss and the despair that drive some to these actions.
King Hussein I
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Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.
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