Bishop Briggs (Sarah Grace McLaughlin) Quotes
Every single time I perform 'River,' I just feel a huge rush of adrenaline and energy, and I remember writing it.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.
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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
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I'm not a lesbian. I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes.
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Sometimes you have to take a thing when it comes and be glad. I first began to feel this way in '57, when I started to get myself together musically, although at the time I was working academically and technically.
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I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.
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Every single time I perform 'River,' I just feel a huge rush of adrenaline and energy, and I remember writing it.
