Judy Collins Quotes
Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
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I do a lot of voice over for Japanese anime titles as well as live-action stuff and original stuff from the States. 'Legion of Super Heroes,' 'New Wolverine: The X - Men' animated series, 'Afro Samurai' and some live-action stuff, TV shows here and there - I like to mix it up.
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'
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I'll be wearing my high heels, even if I'm up to my knees in mud
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History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.
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My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.
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I think it's fantastically narcissistic to believe that in the entire universe, with all of the planetary systems that we've already discovered and the countless others that are out there, that we are the only forms of life.
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Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
