Daniel Keys Moran Quotes
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
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It's really odd to be up close to an icon like Bruce Willis. You're used to seeing him on a screen, 50 feet tall. To think, 'Hmm, I'm taller than you are' is just weird.
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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It's not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You have to be the right person in the right place at the right time.
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Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.
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To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world.
