Janis Ian Quotes
I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you're not releasing episodes, your show is living and breathing on the Internet because there's a community around it. Ninety percent of the work is after the web series is shot, and you have to constantly maintain your community, because it's all you have.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.
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I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport, the metal detector goes off.
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The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her.
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I think workout clothes should be fun! I definitely don't think I have to wear all black to work out. I would say I am more minimal in my personal style... but my workout style, anything goes.
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[Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.
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I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.
