Judy Collins Quotes
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
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Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
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Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
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But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.
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As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
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I'm not locked into playing one guy.
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I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.
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It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I love being in the studio, and I am a huge fan of live music. Without writing good stuff in the studio, you have nothing to play live.
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As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
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I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.
