Ellen Bass Quotes
Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.
Quotes to Explore
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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I learn my songs by ear.
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There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.
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There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'
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When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.
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I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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My losses and my victories are in the past. I think of the future. After a fight is over, it's in the past. I always have to go back to the gym and train to improve in all areas, winning or losing. I think I can always do better next time.
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As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
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I have a wild game camera.
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Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.
