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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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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By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.
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My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.
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We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.
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I used to do tech support for MSN in Canada.
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When you're sick, who does the shopping or takes you to the doctor? Who do you talk to when you are upset?" In other words, who provides you with emotional and practical support? Some patients gave us surprising answers: "my dog" or "my therapist" – or "nobody".
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Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
