Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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School was very difficult. I was conscious of how I looked.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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I have some real big goals with England.
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What I want from my Lovers is real unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.
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You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.
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There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.
