Sergio Leone Quotes
America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
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As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.
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I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
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Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name.
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I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.
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For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.
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I've always wanted to do this, so it really is a dream come true.
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All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.
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One way or another, I want to be a positive force for the people of Louisiana and the United States of America in whatever way I can serve.
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I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.
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America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.
