Vachel Lindsay Quotes
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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Michael Kitchen was a great person to work with. So attentive and just great at what he does and supportive, also.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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As I grew older, it wasn't just to be in the NBA. The dream was to be successful in the NBA.
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Faith will get in the ditch with you, faith will go in the prison with you, faith will go into divorce court with you, faith will go in the hospital with you, faith will go in the nursing home with you.
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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
