Jimmy Breslin Quotes
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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The circus leaves a sweet memory.
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Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.
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People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.
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Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
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I lost my confidence.
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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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I haven't thought about writing so much as potentially producing and finding my own projects to get into production. I want to be able to buy the rights to a story that I have read or a book that I have read.
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If I couldn't get to the national team, I wanted to get as much as I could out of soccer, and I think moving abroad was my opportunity to do that. I think that, in turn, playing with that freedom and that spirit allowed me to play a lot better. I escalated my game quickly just by being happy.
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Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.
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If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.
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When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period.
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I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.
