Judy Collins Quotes
Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.
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This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
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Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.
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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.
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I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.
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There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.
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It's kind of crazy to think I'm still 22 and going into my fifth season. Time has been flying by. I think it's about that time I really take the next step to the elite level.
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Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.
