Eddie Van Halen Quotes
Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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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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People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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Connecting with people is not hard. I love the interaction and the feedback after shows. It does take some time, but the fans appreciate it which makes it worth it.
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For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.
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I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.
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And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator.
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I grew up knowing the importance of breast cancer.
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Even if the pace is slow in championships, you can still sprint well and still power in the last 200, which is always the main part when the race is slow.
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Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.
