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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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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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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I like diner coffee.
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Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
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One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
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There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.
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On the mission I brought a flag from China, I brought the stone sculpture from Hong Kong, and I brought a scroll from Taiwan. And what I wanted to do is, because as I was going up and I am this Chinese-American, I wanted to represent Chinese people from the major population centers around the world where there are a lot of Chinese people. And so, I wanted to bring something from each of those places and so it really wasn't a political thing and I hope people saw it that way. I was born here, I was raised in the U.S., and I'm an American first, but also very proud of my heritage.
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I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.
