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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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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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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Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
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The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.
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The first time I passed as a woman in public was on leave in the U.S. from my deployment to Iraq in February 2010.
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Even though it is, properly speaking, a postprediction, in the sense that the experiment was made before the theory, the fact that gravity is a consequence of string theory, to me, is one of the greatest theoretical insights ever.
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And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.
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My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
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With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.
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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.
