Emmylou Harris Quotes
I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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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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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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An undevout astronomer is mad.
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I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!
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The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.
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We put a lot of pride into our work, and to have it show on Sundays is a testament to all the work we've put in.
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No business is good when, on the last day of the month, you're like, 'What was the usage for the month?'
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I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.
