Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.
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I would get so into playing as a kid that I'd lose track of time.
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I'm not the 'chosen one.' I'm just one of many who have been given gifts. I can write. I can bloviate on TV. So I'm trying to use the gifts in a positive way. And I believe that's all directed. And that's why I'm here on the planet.
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Bitch set me up... I shouldn't have come up here... goddamn bitch.
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You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.
