Marlo Thomas Quotes

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Marlo Thomas

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 21, 1937

The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.

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I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

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Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

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Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

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As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

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Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.

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We are a research center and treatment facility all under one roof.

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So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

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I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.

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In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

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I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows.

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Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

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It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

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What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors.

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I know George Burns was a very happy man.

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People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.

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Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.

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Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.

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There are those who think that the private lives of candidates are none of our business. But when those candidates ask us for our attention as they explain their plans for how they will represent us, no one should be surprised at our interest in how they represent themselves.

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I've always been a champion of kids pursuing their dreams. But sometimes in life, extraordinary circumstances may force us to temporarily put our dreams on hold. The most important thing is to never lose sight of that dream, no matter what punches life may throw in our way.

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