Jennifer Holliday Quotes
When I was suffering with depression, people weren't talking about depression. It had a stigma.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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I am a just man.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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Used games allow more people, specifically younger people, to become game fans because of the lower price point.
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Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally – that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member.
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I always stayed away from political commentary. First of all, I didn't feel entitled. What I may feel about a candidate, I'm a comedian. I mean, if people like my comedy, that doesn't mean they should vote for the person I like. That's why I always kind of stayed away from endorsements.
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As a writer who has struggled with depression, the question is one that has long troubled me. Should I resist treatment, on the off-chance my creative output will somehow be affected?
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When I was suffering with depression, people weren't talking about depression. It had a stigma.
