Mamie Van Doren quote: "Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself."

I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a ...
MAMIE VAN DOREN

I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
MAMIE VAN DOREN

I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
MAMIE VAN DOREN

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
MAMIE VAN DOREN

I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
MAMIE VAN DOREN

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to...
MAMIE VAN DOREN

It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
MAMIE VAN DOREN

I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movi...
MAMIE VAN DOREN

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
MARK VAN DOREN

To be what no one ever was,To be what everyone has been:Freedom is the mean of thoseExtremes that fe...
MARK VAN DOREN

Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
CARL VAN DOREN

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
CARL VAN DOREN

The job of the poet is to render the world -- to see it and report it without loss, without perversi...
MARK VAN DOREN

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
CARL VAN DOREN

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that...
MARK VAN DOREN

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
MARK VAN DOREN

The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion...
MARK VAN DOREN

To fail to love is not to exist at all.
MARK VAN DOREN

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted . . . . Some have settled down to f...
CARL VAN DOREN

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
CARL VAN DOREN

Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.
CHARLES VAN DOREN

To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes th...
MARK VAN DOREN

The genius of the Marx Brothers is for parody. They never are themselves. They exist too abundantly ...
MARK VAN DOREN

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is ...
MARK VAN DOREN

Though we all know that the survival of the species depends on producing children, up until now we h...
MARK VAN DOREN

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
MARK VAN DOREN

To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes that...
MARK VAN DOREN

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversio...
MARK VAN DOREN

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
MARK VAN DOREN

Memory holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life... the companion....
MARK VAN DOREN

The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts into his work
CARL VAN DOREN

Evolutionarily, germ cells are one of the most ancient cell types, needed by every type of animal to...
MARK VAN DOREN

I never wanted to see another quiz show.
CHARLES VAN DOREN

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching a...
CHARLES VAN DOREN

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.
CHARLES VAN DOREN

My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.
CHARLES VAN DOREN

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.
CHARLES VAN DOREN

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happine...
CHARLES VAN DOREN

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages t...
CHARLES VAN DOREN

I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions o...
CHARLES VAN DOREN

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.
CHARLES VAN DOREN

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught n...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tal...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; histor...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from t...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the liter...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the ...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and tha...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service ...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the ...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and tha...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

I like how steady the work in television is. Films, they're hard to come by. They're elusive...
MAMIE GUMMER

L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another pla...
MAMIE GUMMER

I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade&...
MAMIE GUMMER

All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
MAMIE GUMMER

I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consiste...
MAMIE GUMMER

I don't think I'm ever really going to run the risk of disappearing into a Marvel franchise....
MAMIE GUMMER

I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as ...
MAMIE GUMMER

My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? ...
MAMIE GUMMER

I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good w...
MAMIE GUMMER

My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
MAMIE GUMMER

I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but...
MAMIE GUMMER

I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, lik...
MAMIE GUMMER

A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I...
MAMIE GUMMER

I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to st...
MAMIE GUMMER

I like the Dodgers because my dad does - wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I l...
MAMIE GUMMER

My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costum...
MAMIE GUMMER

I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbo...
MAMIE GUMMER

I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', ...
MAMIE GUMMER

All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been give...
MAMIE GUMMER

I love the energy of an independent film set. No one is there for the money. Everyone is there '...
MAMIE GUMMER

I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork...
MAMIE GUMMER

I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.
MAMIE GUMMER

If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with t...
MAMIE GUMMER

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the worl...
MAMIE GUMMER

Ike runs the country, and I turn the pork chops.
MAMIE EISENHOWER

I had a career. His name was Ike.
MAMIE EISENHOWER

One parent of a diabetic eighth-grader told me she's thinking of transferring to a school system tha...
MAMIE COKER

There's a lot of orientation that has to be done, because school nursing is a unique discipline.
MAMIE COKER

They're on a clerical pay scale, and Hall County does not take into account past experience when det...
MAMIE COKER

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
CARL DOREN

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted . . . . Some have settled down to f...
CARL DOREN

The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts into his work
CARL DOREN

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
CARL DOREN

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
CARL DOREN

Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
CARL DOREN

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.
MAMIE SYPERT BURNS

One reason why fiction is a human necessity is that it satisfies many unconscious as well as conscio...
MORTIMER J. ADLER AND CHARLES VAN DOREN

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything ...
VAN MORRISON

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not becau...
VAN MORRISON

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the dist...
VAN MORRISON

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all...
VAN MORRISON

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
VAN MORRISON

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
VAN MORRISON

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit...
VAN MORRISON

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
VAN MORRISON

I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I ...
VAN MORRISON

What you see is what you get.
VAN MORRISON

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
VAN MORRISON

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&...
VAN MORRISON

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'...
VAN MORRISON

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
VAN MORRISON

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
VAN MORRISON

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
VAN MORRISON

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
VAN MORRISON

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling ...
VAN MORRISON

The future is keeping you out of the present time.
VAN MORRISON

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b...
VAN JONES

Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
VAN CLIBURN

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something...
VAN CLIBURN

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a ...
VAN MORRISON

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into...
VAN GOGH

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
VAN MORRISON

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it ...
VAN MORRISON

Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the pur...
VAN HARTMANN

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
VAN MORRISON

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassid...
VAN MORRISON

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club...
VAN MORRISON

hark, now hear the sailors cry,
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul & spir...
VAN MORRISON

From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on t...
VAN MORRISON

Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the p...
VAN HARTMANN

In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON

Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.
VAN PANOPOULOS

I think that's the best Tina played all year,
VAN CHANCELLOR

I hadn't slept a wink in a week. I've never been in a game that meant any more to me than this game.
VAN CHANCELLOR

He has a lot of the same skills, just isn't as polished and refined at this point.
VAN COLEMAN

[In] I Forgot That Love Existed, ... If my heart could do the thinking/ And my head begin to feel/ T...
VAN MORRISON

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. Tha...
VAN MORRISON

His sound was stunning -- it was the blues, it was R&B, it was gospel, it was swing -- it was all th...
VAN MORRISON

[10.] Cleaning Windows ... Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast.
VAN MORRISON

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I ...
VAN MORRISON

Then let's go to the funeral home. My son was beaten so badly it was unbelievable. We had to close t...
VAN HORN

News should be based on facts. If not, it's a show to damage people, to slander people. That is n...
ANITA VAN

I think what the family is doing is terrible. I don't think it's their right to do these things like...
ANITA VAN

This just goes to show you that what you want is a lot of people looking for stuff. You want them to...
VAN TURNER

Science marches slowly, and my biggest fear all along has been that another specimen of the same ani...
VAN TURNER

Give Nicole Powell credit for making a great shot,
VAN CHANCELLOR

I've been tailgating here for about 15 years, and I like tailgating here better than at Auburn,
VAN HORN

News should be based on facts. If not, it's a show … to damage people, to slander people. That is ...
ANITA VAN

Early on in MTV's life cycle, the novelty of the video wore off.
VAN TOFFLER

We had preordered and also had cheese quiche with potato crust. It was absolutely wonderful,
VAN HORN

It's tough to be a really good team when you're losing guys out of your state, ... I think that's so...
VAN ALSTYNE

That's how my career has been, ... It's been a battle with ups and downs.
VAN ALSTYNE

It was a crime of opportunity. One of the females entered the office, there was money that had been ...
VAN ALSTYNE

a small town with a big heart.
VAN ALSTYNE

Great Days of Service.
VAN ALSTYNE

My doctor was discouraged because the drugs that I had been taking had so many side effects, ... And...
VAN ALSTYNE

There is nothing (educators) can do inside this classroom that is going to solve this problem unless...
VAN ALLEN

The meet this past weekend really marked a point where we set new standards for our team at Hopkins.
VAN ALLEN

We have never had this much depth on the women's sprint side. We have very healthy inter-team compet...
VAN ALLEN

I couldn't be more proud of the way we're competing right now.
VAN ALLEN

Having that consistency in the coaching staff has really been helping all of our athletes improve.
VAN ALLEN

We are looking forward to doing a little better. We have to recharge our batteries.
VAN SWEET

I guess that the homework has not been done very well.
VAN NIEUWENHUIZEN

She didn't concede, and I think that was probably appropriate.
VAN COLEMAN

Blake is going to be our starting third baseman. He's on a mission. I told him third base could be h...
VAN HORN

It's sort of the 19th century equivalent of a blow horn, ... It was used primarily as a form of comm...
BOBBY VAN

You know, every time you visit a facility, you see things that are really great, ... We don't want t...
BOBBY VAN

We want to go out into different areas of the county, where it's more accessible for citizens, to gi...
BOBBY VAN

I understand they've come up with some more numbers on fuel costs, but I would still like to look fo...
BOBBY VAN

It would be better to issue COs than to want for the federal government to order us to build somethi...
BOBBY VAN

It was approved by the president's council and the white paper was accepted.
VAN HUYSSTEEN

I see the maturity of Michelle Snow, getting better and better each day.
VAN CHANCELLOR

The best times we’ve had on earth are usually with those we love.
VAN HARDEN

I found parts all the way from cranial elements to the tail. I found individual vertebrae and fused ...
VAN TURNER

Absolutely a good idea, but I'd recommend using a grout stain instead.
VAN PURCELL

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity
VAN MORRISON

I think Stamps.com is well positioned versus their competitors, ... They approached this from the po...
VAN BAKER

The accessory market, I don't see them going into that in a widespread basis with lots and lots of p...
VAN BAKER

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
VAN MORRISON

Jump!
VAN HALEN

and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. an...
VAN MORRISON

I think Stamps.com is well positioned versus their competitors. They approached this from the point ...
VAN BAKER

has broken down the dam so that we can be brave, too.
VAN CLEVE

First and foremost, Xbox 360 is a game machine, and so is anybody going to go out and buy an Xbox 36...
VAN BAKER

Since we announced this campaign, there has been an incredible outpouring of support from the music ...
VAN TOFFLER

A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappea...
VAN MORRISON

They would often pull on his beard and say he must be the real Santa Claus,
VAN ORDEN

He never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity
VAN JONES

It's always the goal to come out and win. The field is definitely improving. I mean, all across the ...
LINDSAY VAN

I just tried to focus on what I really needed to do. I haven't been feeling too well lately, but it ...
LINDSAY VAN

Drew had a big day. He did a good job playing first base for us and made some things happen at the p...
VAN ARNOLD

The media market it fragmenting like crazy right now,
VAN BAKER

We do have great depth, and great depth is good,
VAN CHANCELLOR

has truly recognized and received my deep love and lifetime devotion.
VAN CLIBURN

He's a good, solid big-man recruit. He's long; he runs the floor really well, excellent shooting tou...
VAN COLEMAN

Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, 'You will never get the girl at the end'. So I worked on ...
VAN HEFLIN

Hunters need to remember that there are many other folks spending time outdoors during early Septemb...
VAN HORN

Their inside game allowed them to get things done. We had too many scoring opportunities that we did...
VAN HOLT

The Board can only do so much and we now have a better understanding of how this matter came to be, ...
VAN HUYSSTEEN

I can't help but feel we are being used as a pawn in the political game, and I'm not going to take i...
VAN JOHNSON

Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.
DRIES VAN NOTEN

Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

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Mamie Van Doren

Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

Mamie Van Doren

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