Jerry Leiber Quotes
Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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We care about margins.
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
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I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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If I meant that I missed Bochy and Hunter, it's the guys I'd been joking around with most. Hunter is like my brother, and Bochy is like my dad. But at the end of the day, I missed all the guys.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
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I like the work that I get to do.
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I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.
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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.
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I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.
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When someone says 'comic book movies', what they inevitably mean is a summer superhero blockbuster, with heavily-muscled and tightly-gluted men (plus the occasional token woman) in tight-fitting costumes punching the living daylights out of one another for two hours.
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Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.
