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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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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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
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I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?
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I'm always happy to play the bad girl. I just get to have fun, and it's obviously all done with a smile.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers' comp. And God help you if you're poor and mentally ill.
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I settled on a game called I am a contribution. Unlike success and failure, contribution has no other side. It is not arrived at by comparison.
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I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!
