Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes
Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.
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Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.
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I have to make sure that I don't silence myself about the things that I believe in, because sometimes the fear creeps in of 'What if fewer people watch the show or fewer people hire me because I express my politics?' For me, the commitment is to never be quiet just because I'm in the public eye.
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It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
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Some think the only way to get even, to get attention or advantage, or to win is to bash people. This kind of behavior is never appropriate. Oftentimes character and reputation and almost always self-esteem are destroyed under the hammer of this vicious practice.
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Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.
