Bria Skonberg Quotes
Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.
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Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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I've been very lucky.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused.
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I'm not a natural redhead, but I enjoy having red hair.
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In 1955, I got my degree in electrical-mechanical engineering. I realised, however, that my interest was less in practical applications than in the understanding of the underlying theoretical structure, and I decided to learn physics.
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I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something.
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The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.
