Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!
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My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
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Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.
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When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.
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So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.
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To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.
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I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.
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Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.
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I enjoy being in Toronto - there's lots of energy, lots of neat different neighbourhoods - but Vancouver is still home and always will be. I miss going for walks on the ocean with beautiful mountains.
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I never thought of myself as a comedian. That is a label – make me laugh. I want to make you think.
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The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
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What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.
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We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.
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The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.
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I never, in all my life, took any mean advantage of an enemy.
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I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sister. It was really a struggle, and knowing that there were people out there with tight-knit families really made my childhood an unfortunate one.
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I feel sorry for short people, you know. When it rains, they're the last to know.
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I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!
