Janis Ian Quotes
Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
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There are a lot of kicks out there in taekwondo that are flashy, so I like all of those. My favourite is probably chop because I'm better at it than the others. But I like a good back kick if I can nail it well.
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A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.
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You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.
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Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.
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Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.
