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.
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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.
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I'm not a control freak.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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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.
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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.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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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.
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I know what poverty is.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
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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.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I've been to Philadelphia a lot of times over the years, playing the old Celebrity Room and most of the other clubs around there that don't exist anymore.
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My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him.
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On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
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I wanted to be as genuine as possible because all those people like Jimmie Lee Jackson - me, Mike Brown, all these people - we're all the same; we're not much different.
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Other thing about Field Museum of Natural History which inspired was that in a group of pots you wouldn't see a single example of this kind of pot. You would perhaps see a case with 20 different examples. So you realize that these pots could be repeated again and again, and each time there would be minor variations in them.
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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.
