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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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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It doesn't matter who you sleep with, it's how you treat other people in this world.
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I like girls that are chilled out, that dont really care, that are just cool.
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I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.
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Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
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The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit and what the story wants to tell. That's really what inspires me.
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Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.
