Djuna Barnes Quotes
Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.
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I think I need security.
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I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.
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I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
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When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
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The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.
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One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about.
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If I wasn't acting, all I'd do is ride my bike. I've always loved doing that.
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Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.
