Quotes on the topic: Orphan


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Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.


Not everyone can be an orphan.


The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.


It's odd to think of yourself as an orphan at 55.


I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.'


Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.


Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.


For me, in general, it's always about the material. Obviously, it's about the material and hoping that someone wants to hire me for a job, too, but I've certainly seen films like 'Orphan' and movies like that where I know that if I had had the opportunity to read that script or had an opportunity to do it, I would have wanted to do it.


I love creating opportunities for people. I think it's my orphan mentality.


If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.


My mom was an orphan, and there was never anybody to tell her what she could or couldn't do. At the core, she's probably an artist - an artist and a feminist.


Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.


If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!