Jerry Falwell Quotes
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.
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In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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My parents opened a bank account for me when I was really little, and I think I paid for some of my university education with my savings. I've always been a bit of a saver.
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People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.
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You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
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I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.
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I wore miniskirts in the days when no fat girls should have, and with total delight.
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Being God would be the ultimate.
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The only other mammalian carnivores that take outsized prey are lions, hyenas, wolves, and African wild dogs. Each... has an exceptionally advanced social life, prominently featuring the pursuit of prey in coordinated packs.
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Just in terms of the opportunity I've gotten is amazing. I consider myself super, super, super lucky.
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You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
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I have incredibly positive associations with the military.
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At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.
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The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.
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Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.
