Jonathan Richman Quotes

You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city.

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• The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • School
  • Word
  • Performance

• I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I'm not a control freak.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Control
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• I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Women
  • Enjoy
  • Explore

• I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

  

  Warren G. Harding
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• I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

  

  Sam Hunt
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  • Enough

• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
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• The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.

  

  Edmund White
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  • Life
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• And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

  

  Larry David
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• Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

  

  Dan Stevens
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• I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• I know what poverty is.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
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• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  

  Kate Adie
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• I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Myself
  • Commitment

• You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

  

  Harold Prince
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• For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.

  

  Najib Razak
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• If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
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• People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
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  • Challenge

• I was a fan as well, and I knew it would be a difficult task to come into '24.'

  

  Annie Wersching

• Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
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• My mother is old-fashioned; she raised us like girls from a 19th-century book. My sisters and I are known for being the most polite girls in France. My mother wanted us to be like royalty: never ever will you be caught being rude, or superficial or being a star or whatever.

  

  Lou Doillon
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• I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

  

  Kevin Dunn
  • School
  • High
  • City

• I am not the most objective viewer of my own work. So I have different thoughts about my work.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Work
  • Different
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• You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city.

  

  Jonathan Richman
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