Mary Tyler Moore

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

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Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

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A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

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But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

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I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

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I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

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I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

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I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

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Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

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It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

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