Jodi Benson Quotes
I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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I, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.
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The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.
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As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.
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The thing about Bollywood is that you can't just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.
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I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.
