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Michael Douglas Quotes

Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.

Michael Douglas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: September 25, 1944

Topics

Marriage Lovely Anything Grows Like

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.

You Getting Old Go Know More Old

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

Marriage Time Quality Little Things

The color and the diversity dies out, and it gets whiter and whiter, and that's in any field. There is also this idea that there can only be one gay person or there can only be one Asian-American woman in the office, and so it also perpetuates itself where we are isolated, especially the more successful we get.

Jessica Williams

Woman Diversity Color Gay Person

The important thing to know is that life will always deal us a few bad cards, but we have to play those cards the best we can. And we can play to win. This was one lesson I picked up when I was a teenager. It has been my guiding principle ever since. When I wanted something, the best person to depend on was myself.

Life Myself Best Win Bad Play

No one believes that they're a bad person at the end of the day.

Day End Of The Day End Bad Person

Sibling relationships have been underemphasised in learning about child development.

Robert J. Waldinger

Learning Child Sibling Relationships

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

Andy Goldsworthy

Theatre Energy Difference Audience

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.

Music Growing Up American Growing Up

To be totally honest, I thought I would have a Broadway debut in the distant, distant future, maybe in my 60s or 70s when somebody revived one of my off-Broadway plays with a star.

Future Thought Honest Star Would

My father used to stress that he valued us all as individuals, but that no one in the world was worth more or less than anyone else. This was a good principle to establish in a large family.

Stellan Skarsgard

Family Good Father Stress World Us

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

Important Want Stressed Productive

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

Women Equality Me You Personal Two

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