Joan Baez Quotes
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I've never been a partier.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I love the Royal Family and every aspect of Britain and what we have achieved in history.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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I won't give up my day job of design.
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T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.
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I've never been specifically attached to westerns, but there are those I like - one of the best westerns I've seen is 'Unforgiven.' I think the genre has something extremely powerful that can allow them to talk about good and evil in a very straight way.
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My visibility may have gotten Hollywood to redefine what's attractive.
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When I'm filming, I live out of a suitcase, so everything is thrown everywhere. In real life, I'm a bit tidier.
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
