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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Writers are so important.
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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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I don't believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don't think that works.
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I accept the fact that angels are great heavenly beings, and I think some people give me the feeling that I'm with an angel.
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If you lived next door to me and didn't know what I did, you wouldn't know I was a celebrity. I don't have that lifestyle, nor do I want that lifestyle. I want to know that I can have a separate life with my wife and my kids and just be normal and go camping and fishing and outdoor stuff.
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A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.
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I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.
