James Rosenquist Quotes
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I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity.
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The Land of Israel goes with the Torah of Israel under the sovereignty of the State of Israel.
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An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.
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If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.
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I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
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The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.
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I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.
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My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.
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It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.
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Doing 'Magnificent Seven' was a no-brainer.
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Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.
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The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.
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We are in the the entertainment business, and we all know if you are top of the tree, you get big money.
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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
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Russian people really don't like it when somebody does horrible things in Russia, and then can calmly go travel to another country and spend time there. And this is what needs to be done: the Russian people need to be told this, because in today's world, just doing something is not enough. You've got to tell about it, too. If you've done something and haven't told about it, it's as good as if you hadn't done it at all.
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I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.
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I always said if I could figure out a way to grow Kleenex and toilet paper on trees, we could pull the plug on society.
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I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list.
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I used to know Madison Avenue advertisers. I didn't like 'em. Bunch of jerks.
