Judy Gold Quotes
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation.
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Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'
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I worked with Michael Black and Michael Showalter on their show 'Michael and Michael Have Issues.' We did some stuff on that, but it ended up not getting picked up for a second season. There will be more stuff, but not right now. Michael Showalter and I are literally next-door neighbors. We see quite a lot of each other.
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Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
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I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.
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We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.
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My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
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I joined a band to hit things.
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The fact is that no foreign-policy doctrine is perfect.
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Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.
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I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.
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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
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I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.
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To have a job making people laugh really is the greatest thing.
