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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.”

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Author:Oscar Levant

“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.”

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Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“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.”

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Author:Sammy Cahn

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

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Author:Erica Jong

“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.”

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Author:Sally Potter

“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."”

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Author:Joan Crawford

“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!”

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Author:John Wayne

“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.”

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Author:John Updike

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

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Author:Chaka Khan

“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.”

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Author:Roger Ebert

“I loved all those Doris Day visuals of her being a tomboy and then changing into this gorgeous girl in a ballgown.”

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Author:Stella McCartney

“Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals is instructive in painting a realistic portrayal of Lincoln and his methods for accomplishing his objectives. In fact, many good political biographies are useful in learning about power, strategy, and decision-making.”

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Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“I love Judy Garland, I love Doris Day, I love Marilyn Monroe. I love everything that comes from that era. The music is just beautiful and powerful - and simple. That's what makes it so great.”

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Author:Emmy Rossum

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

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Author:John Lewis

“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.”

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Author:Dave Barry

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

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Author:Dave Barry

“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.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“Christ, I'm in a Doris Day movie”

Author:Jennifer Crusie

“How could I not love you? No one has ever affected me like you do. When you told me goodbye last month, I tried to let you go. I told myself it was the best thing for you because you wanted it. But you’re wrong, Dori. I’m good for you even if you don’t know it yet. I know because I’ve never been good for anyone before.”

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Author:Tammara Webber

“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!”

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Book:The Hobbit Or There and Back Again

Source: The Hobbit Or There and Back Again

“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.”

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Book:Between the Lines: The Complete Series

Source: Between the Lines: The Complete Series

“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.”

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Author:Nick Hornby

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

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Author:Groucho Marx

“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.”

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Author:Margaret Whiting

“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.”

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Author:Betty Grable

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

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Author:Dave Barry

“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.”

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Author:Rick Mercer

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Kara DioGuardi