Fred Astaire Quotes
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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Religion is a big problem in Israel and the Arab world, but again, the problem isn't religion but political leaders who want to use the religion.
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The quality of films out there depends on how much responsibility we're willing to take. I try to play women who are positive and heroic.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.
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'Everybody is born good and everybody has got the same size soul. We're here to connect with that.'
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
