James Mooney Quotes
The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Are you kidding? They had me at 'Star Wars.' The kid inside me would've clawed his way out and strangled me if I'd turned this job down.
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I've played women since I was a kid and I've always enjoyed it.
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Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.
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The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours.
