Janet Mock Quotes
One musical that deeply influenced me - and continues to do so - is the 1997 ABC TV movie of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'Cinderella,' starring Brandy, with Whitney Houston as the Fairy Godmother and Whoopi Goldberg as the prince's mom.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.
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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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I love to smile.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.
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You just have to find a lawyer that won't let you sign certain things - and I mean the fine print, because I was gone from Phil Spector and signed with Gamble and Huff in Philadelphia, and Phil bought my record contract back from them.
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We design our own programmes; we take leadership. Of course the donors come in to support us, to complement our efforts. Our responsibility to the donors is about accountability: about how we use that money. If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.
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I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
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I think that if I'd not made the movie, I might be a veterinarian in Connecticut. I would probably be married with some children. That's probably the way it would be. But because of the film [the Exorcist], I don't have a normal life by somebody else's standards.
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One musical that deeply influenced me - and continues to do so - is the 1997 ABC TV movie of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'Cinderella,' starring Brandy, with Whitney Houston as the Fairy Godmother and Whoopi Goldberg as the prince's mom.
