Thorne Smith Quotes

#1. Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.

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#2. If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.

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#3. Topper was making her realise how calculatingly cruel and unsympathetic she was, how stubborn as a wife and inadequate as a friend. No

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#4. 'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.

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#5. He discovered in his heart the first faint whispering of pure Christianity, and in some way he continued to keep his virtue intact by keeping his vices active.

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#6. Rest here with me a moment," he said, "and let the world go to hell.

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#7. We must just keep on and on until the mountains themselves crumble from nausea or we learn to scale them and cool our hands in the sky.

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#8. Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists.

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#9. Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere.

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#10. She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.

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#11. making. Little birds were always so excited. He had

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#12. For the first time Topper's established routine of living gave place to a disorderly desire to live.

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#13. I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.

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#14. I thought, I hate the thought of a 12, 13 or 14 year-old girl seeing a picture of me and thinking she'll do what I did.

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#15. There's nobody I don't like. Maybe in six years it will be different.

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#16. I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.

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#17. When I'm feeling sorry for myself, I'll eat Lucky Charms cereal. I like having sugar when I'm in that mood.

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#18. It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business.

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#19. I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that.

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#20. To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.

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#21. I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.

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#22. I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

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#23. You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

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#24. All her years of maturity had been devoted either to distorting or side-stepping the less agreeable facts motivating her self-indulgent conduct.

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#25. There's so many young women today who look so lost. And I feel like, of course they're lost. They have no one around them to give them real, authentic reflection.

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#26. One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships.

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#27. Vanity and prejudice have as usual played havoc with the truth, and Mr. Topper's reputation has been tossed into a furnace of frantically wagging tongues. The

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#28. My hope is that if I take good care of my skin and use Botox, I won't have to use anything else.

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#29. If men had to have babies there wouldn't be any sex life left.

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#30. You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.

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#31. Never say never. I always want to look like myself - that's key for me. I don't want to look like a different person, I don't want my face frozen.

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#32. She had one of those twisty minds that find no difficulty in sublimating their meanest little impulses to almost dizzily ethical heights.

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#33. He was committing a terrible crime. He was destroying her good opinion of herself. Topper

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#34. I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.

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