Judy Collins Quotes

When we sing, our hearts can lift and fly, over the troubled waters and over the years.

Judy Collins

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• I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Real
  • School
  • Dance

• I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Day
  • Baseball
  • Dreams

• I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Friends
  • Mother
  • Understand

• I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Live
  • Moon
  • Week

• I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • American
  • Age

• I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Actor
  • Right
  • Working

• Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Family
  • Father
  • Door

• Sometimes I feel edgy, sometimes I feel like I want to wear a bright, bold beautiful color.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Want
  • Beautiful
  • Color

• 'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Heard

• Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Game
  • Master
  • Storytelling

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• Relief brought an aching desire to be sitting in a kedai with a large bottle of Tiger or Anchor or Carlsberg in front of him....

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Desire
  • Tiger
  • Anchor

• And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

  

  Edward Young
  • Death

• The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for prediction but for modification and control. Two technologies were maturing together: the digital computer and the space satellite.

  

  James Gleick
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Science

• Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.

  

  Joe Murray
  • Time

• I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Why

• The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.

  

  Alexander Duff
  • Church

• Americans are willing to cheer on politicians who denounce bureaucratic overreach and job-killing red tape in abstract terms. But they turn out to like specific regulations against toxic chemicals in their drinking water.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Job
  • Water
  • Red

• On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Small
  • Lost
  • City

• The left and right sides of the brain also process the imprints of the past in dramatically different ways.2 The left brain remembers facts, statistics, and the vocabulary of events. We call on it to explain our experiences and put them in order. The right brain stores memories of sound, touch, smell, and the emotions they evoke. It reacts automatically to voices, facial features, and gestures and places experienced in the past.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Brain
  • Emotions
  • Experiences

• I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.

  

  Clara Ann Fowler
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Singing

• The righteousness of God's Kingdom is the product of God's reign in the human heart. God must reign in our lives now if we are to enter the Kingdom tomorrow.

  

  George Eldon Ladd
  • Heart
  • Human
  • Kingdoms

• It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Life
  • Time
  • Paths

• When we sing, our hearts can lift and fly, over the troubled waters and over the years.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Heart
  • Water
  • Years