Elizabeth Pena Quotes
Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.
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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 was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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Women are always beautiful.
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The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available digitally, at practically no cost for storage and delivery, to a radically decentralized world-wide market at the click of a mouse, is irreversible.
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I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.
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The fascination of somebody with original creative gifts is something that's always drawn me. I get attached to them, but I can't call it being in love, because the words are so debased.
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Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.
