Janis Ian Quotes
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
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Now, I'm back to my old ways: Needing to be the leader, needing to score.
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It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.
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No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.
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Do what you think is right, because one damn thing is an absolute, certainly: We come and go. Politicians are a dime a dozen.
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I didn't even go to graduation.
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I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
