Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs, but it imposes them and makes them permeate the thinking of everyone by a sort of enormous pressure of the mind of all upon the individual intelligence.
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I think, with music in general, people just inevitably connect with feeling. The opportunity to hear expressed feeling. That's what has always drawn me towards music. It's something where, by connecting to someone else's voice, I feel less lonely. I feel more alive. I feel more connected to the world and to the rest of humanity. Sometimes a voice can be like a lifeline.
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Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We've always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds awful, it's the first time in the history of recorded music that it sounds worse. It's really - and it's everywhere, it's ubiquitous.
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Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.
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There are many ways people think of God, and thousands of flavors of Christianity, Judaism, Islam... but they're always looking at something that's not measurable or you can't really see or control.
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The small family farm is dying; people's lives are being dislocated.
