Bill Dedman Quotes
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did, I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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I'm a real girly-girl.
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You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper – it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
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The thing that I would say you get the most hate about on social media, in my experience, is if you tweet anything about women's rights or feminism. It blows my mind. But it's the thought of not being a feminist that actually blows my mind.
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Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts-for support rather than illumination.
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Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
