Daisy Berkowitz Quotes

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

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• I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.

  

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• Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

  

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• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

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• Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

  

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• The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.

  

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• Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

  

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• When I sing, people shut up.

  

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• You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.

  

  Iris Apfel
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• I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.

  

  Manny Montana
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• I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.

  

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• After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.

  

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• Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.

  

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• The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.

  

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• I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.

  

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• I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!

  

  Taylor Wilson
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• Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.

  

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• The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool.

  

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• I grew up in the next town over from Asbury Park and five streets from E Street. My mother fed me 'Born To Run' with my Cheerios.

  

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• I had a very funny family.

  

  Zach Braff
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• Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.

  

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• It annoys the hell out of me when people say, This is the kitchen, and this is the bathroom. What am I, Helen Keller? I mean, it's pretty obvious when you're in a kitchen and when you're not.

  

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• I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
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