Jeff Buckley Quotes
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Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
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What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.
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I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
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The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.
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George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?
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I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
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We have to use every tool at our disposal and that's why we're trialing a badger cull. We need healthy wildlife living alongside healthy cattle. Only if we work to eradicate the reservoir of TB in our badgers, will we have the strong and prosperous dairy industry the public wishes to see.
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I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down.
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I want to have more original-screenplay Oscars than anybody who's ever lived! So much, I want to have so many that - four is enough. And do it within ten films, all right, so that when I die, they rename the original-screenplay Oscar 'the Quentin.' And everybody's down with that.
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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
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I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.
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Nature knows best.
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When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the '50s, I looked in vain for books about my people. I did find some paperbacks with lurid covers in the local bus station, but they ended with the gay character's committing suicide, dying in a car crash, being sent to a mental hospital, or 'turning' heterosexual.
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I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.
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The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.
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We have to end Citizens United, and we have to do it united as a people. If we don't do it, our system is going to be further corrupted.
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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.
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It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a doll inside our head, the only woman who is always available in fact, the only one we shall ever possess, whom the arbitrary nature of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the real Balbec had been from the Balbec I imagined- a dummy creation that little by little, to our own detriment, we shall force the real woman to resemble.
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I don't choose the songs; the songs choose me.
