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 remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God.
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Aside from the public polemic, aside from public statements, there is an ordinary normal practice of complying with agreements and treaties, there are mechanisms for their implementation.
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Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.
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In Vancouver, in Sydney and in Orange County, we live among fluorescent stores and streets so brightly lit that you can read a book after dark; in other places across our global body, there are blackouts and curfews every night.
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I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.
