Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes
Some people will stay at home and be content there. Others are born to run. It's that conflict that fascinates me.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what I'm about.
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Id like to acknowledge three people who early on knew Mel Brooks was one of the funniest people in the world: Sid Caesar, me, and Mel Brooks.
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If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.
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It is really rather foolish to so often feel we have to say something brilliant and enlightening to someone who is suffering. Job makes it clear that simple companionship is what suffering people often crave - not a course in philosophy.
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We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
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Some people will stay at home and be content there. Others are born to run. It's that conflict that fascinates me.
