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 wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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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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Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
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I don't like karaoke. But maybe that's why I'm so perfect for 'Lip Sync Battle,' because I get to still hear the song I love and watch the performances that I love without having to hear someone sing.
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Be hard on yourself, easy on others.
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Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.
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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.
