Jim Foglesong Quotes
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!
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I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there, that didn't sound country at all, and everything in between.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was some of the most beautiful black and white comic art ever published. The stories are good, too, though early '70s comics based on Conan is a festival of sexist, racist stereotypes.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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You have to be proud of who you are.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
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I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
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Everything is practice.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I went to these mixers, you know, where you're supposed to meet people. And sure enough, some guy asked me for my phone number. but at the end of the evening he gave it back.
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The West Coast is so different from the common perceptions of it.
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I met Toni, my wife, when we were cast opposite each other in a musical.
