Bill Vaughan Quotes
Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.
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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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I don't really play games and don't know much about them, but my son certainly does.
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Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.
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There is no great difference in reality between one country and another, because it is always people you meet everywhere. They may look different or be dressed differently, they may have a different education or position; but they are all the same. They are all people to be loved.
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Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.
