George Newbern Quotes
Acting in Los Angeles can be very isolating because you either have a job or you don't have a job - and if you don't have a job, it's all about getting out of your house. It sucks to sit around waiting. That's death.
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.
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I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.
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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly.
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Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
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Comedy chose me. I always had this urge to be silly that I couldn't control. I remember my father having me read 'The Three Little Pigs' to him, and I would improv all around the story, like when one pig's house got blown over, he put on his gym shoes and took off.
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Acting in Los Angeles can be very isolating because you either have a job or you don't have a job - and if you don't have a job, it's all about getting out of your house. It sucks to sit around waiting. That's death.
