Dori Quotes

• That’s what faith is, right?’ he says. ‘Believing in what can’t be known? Fall into my arms, Dori. I’ll catch you, every time, and I won’t let go.

  Tammara Webber

  Letting Go, Believe, Fall

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.1183, Tammara Webber

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• Jesus Christ! I would crawl over the mountains of Beverly Hills on my hands and knees if I could do a movie with Doris Day!

  John Wayne

  Jesus, Hands, Mountain

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• When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted.

  Roger Ebert

  Film Critics, Target, Today

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• But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.

  Chaka Khan

  Song, My Sister, Frank

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• I'm always looking for insights into the real Doris Day because I'm stuck with this infatuation and need to explain it to myself.

  John Updike

  Real, Needs, Infatuation

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• They were grooming Doris Day to take over the top spot. Jack L. Warner asked me to play her sister in one picture. I said, "Come on, Jack. No one could ever believe that I would have Doris Day for a sister."

  Joan Crawford

  Believe, Play, Spots

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'll remember this to my grave. We all walked into a room to see the screen tests. The first screen test was Marion Hutton's. Then came Janis Paige [who ended up with a part in the film]. Then on the screen came Doris Day. I can only tell you, the screen just exploded. There was absolutely no question. A great star was born and the rest is history.

  Sammy Cahn

  Stars, Tests, Rooms

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• Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in Team of Rivals, he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.

  Douglas Wilder

  Running, Team, Names

  "Obama-Clinton ticket for 2012" by Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. August 2, 2010.

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• My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

  Erica Jong

  Confused, Princess, Role Models

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• Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make a family, make a nest. Women were pushed back into the home after having been active in the Second World War. It was a big Doris Day moment for women, which didn't suit all women.

  Sally Potter

  War, Home, People

  "TIFF: Interview with Sally Potter – Writer and Director of Ginger and Rosa". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. September 13, 2012.

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• Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.

  Salman Rushdie

  Order, Care, Want

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• Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.

  John Lewis

  People, Rubies, Parks

  "The Long March Of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith on MTV News' "The Stakes" podcast, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• One I'm deeply into is Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals." I was the only person in the US who hadn't read it.

  Dave Barry

  Team, Rivals, Persons

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.

  Camille Paglia

  Compassion, Feminism, Doe

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.84, Vintage

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• My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.

  Oscar Levant

  Sea, Romance, Lasts

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• Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork and put back on the shelf!" "No you don't!" he heard Dori answering, "because the bacon knows that it will get back in the pan sooner or later; and it is to be hoped we shan't. Also eagles aren't forks!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Eagles, Pieces, Forks

  J. R. R. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1982). “The Hobbit Or There and Back Again”, Del Rey

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• I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit, who can't say 'I love you' even when they want to, who start to cough and sputter and change the subject. But here you are. A living, breathing specimen. Incredible.

  Nick Hornby

  Break Up, Breakup, Real

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• I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Sex

  Quoted in Max Wilk, The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood (1972)

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• Doris Day was such a big movie and TV star, people overlooked her singing. The proof is in the package. She's one of the best singers there ever was.

  Margaret Whiting

  Stars, People, Singing

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• As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love.

  Betty Grable

  Girl, Dancer, Rivals

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• I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Women, Causes

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• I walked out of the movie "Lincoln" and bought the book [of Doris Kearns Goodwin] at the bookstore next door.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Doors, Next

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Parent, Stones, Excited

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• After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for cultural criticism in taking on the work of Doris Salcedo, exploring the philosophical and aesthetic stakes of this committed political art and the relation between beauty, violence, and memory. A tour de force.

  Jonathan Culler

  Art, Memories, Philosophical

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• We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this," you may ask? Because it'll be fun.

  Rick Mercer

  Change, Fun, Government

  "This Hour Has 22 Minutes". TV Series, (1992 - ).

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