James A. Garfield Quotes
I am glad to have the opportunity of standing up against a rabble of men who hasten to make weathercocks of themselves.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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I love to listen to books on tape.
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In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.
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I'm not really into the fame side of things, so I'm very happy with making a film every four years or so.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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Joe Roth, who ended up becoming president of 20th Century Fox, he was the producer of Our Winning Season. This was one of his first movies. It's just a really great, great little film, a lot of good people in it. I don't know whatever happened to that movie, and why it didn't get the success it deserves.
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I am glad to have the opportunity of standing up against a rabble of men who hasten to make weathercocks of themselves.
