Dave Van Ronk Quotes
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?
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I grew up in Christianity. They preach a lot that you should get married and be a wife and be a virtuous woman and all of that. So I was so eager to do that, and I didn't really take the time I needed to grow into my own. And I ended up running into a really bad situation. I didn't even really date my ex-husband. We just kind of jumped into it.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
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We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.
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In L.A. Confidential, it was great to surprise the audience with Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe - two Australian actors that they didn't know at all - and let people discover them through the course of the film.
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In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower class. They all like to think of themselves as potential millionaires.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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In the midst of this enormous economic crisis, I think Canada has shown itself to be a pretty good manager of the financial system and the economy in ways that we always - haven't always been here in the United States.
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I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
