Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
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Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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We are what we believe we are.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.
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I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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The writing that I have found to be most false is the writing that doesn't offer hope.
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Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
