Judy Collins Quotes
Writing is a voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out of the corner of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks our hearts even when we think we should be happiest, and to which we cannot give a name.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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There is no such thing as emotional incompatibility. There are only misunderstandings and mistakes which can easily be set right if we have the will to do so.
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The heart is the best reflective thinker.
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Poetry emulates the Cosmos perhaps because the Cosmos itself is the grandest conceivable example of rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity.
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I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.
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The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures.
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Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.
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Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.
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He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart
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We're living in an age where we should be collaborating. Because it's the Internet now. It's hard to say who owns what.
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I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.
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Writing is a voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out of the corner of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks our hearts even when we think we should be happiest, and to which we cannot give a name.
