Judy Collins Quotes
I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.
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My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.
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I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
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Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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I love playing women, and I think that this is a throughline to a lot of the characters I've played - they all have this aspect of being wronged. And I think, a lot of the time, the characters are actually wronged by themselves, and they find someone else to blame it on.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.
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Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
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To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.
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If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don’t forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.
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I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.
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Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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There's nothing easy about building a company at all. I find it really hard, just painful and difficult, and if you are successful, it's even worse than if you fail.
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I honestly think comedy is probably the hardest stuff to do.
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I'm sick of women telling other women what men want them to look like.
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You come out at night;That's when the energy comes.And the dark side's light,And the vampires roam.You strut your rasta wearAnd your suicide poemAnd a cross from a faithThat died before Jesus came.You're building a mystery.
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We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.
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I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.
