Virginia Madsen Quotes
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I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.
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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.
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2014 was the planet’s warmest year on record. Now, one year doesn’t make a trend, but this does: 14 of the 15 warmest years on record have all fallen in the first 15 years of this century.
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Music is a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.
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The monastic man is an artist.The philosopher Appoints man’s place in music, say, today. But the priest desires. The philosopher desires.And not to have is the beginning of desire. To have what is not is its ancient cycle.
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I got great voice training in St. Mary’s Church, Wavertree, in Liverpool, when I was a lad. Dressing up in cassocks was all part of the fun. I used to earn sixpence a week and although I don’t go to church very much any more, 'Once In Royal David’s City' is still my favourite hymn.
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Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.
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If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.
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My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
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Music is something so mystical, so unexplainably a thing you cannot put in the rules or boundaries, you know? It speaks about our feelings about questions of life and death. It goes absolutely beyond any kind of rules.
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You can just go to a magic shop or magic builder and buy what most magicians do, but that's not what I'm about. With 'Mindfreak' on television and 'Believe' live, I want to bring things that people have never seen before. That process is very difficult. It's very challenging, and you never know how long it's going to take - months or years.
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Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
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I rap on 'Front Porch Junkies' and 'Whatcha Got in that Cup.' I try to channel my inner Lil Wayne and Drake. It's fun to be able to freestyle over a country melody and say country words over a rap song.
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I believe that if we are to continue to strengthen the social and economic fabric and future of this nation, we cannot tolerate laws that drive some of our best talent to choose between living in their country or with the person they love.
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The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.
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Playing in a competition like the Champions League is important for a player; it makes you feel much more of a professional in this sport.
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I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
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Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests, its inbreeding tendencies, its stifling atmosphere, its corroding influence. Once become
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It's almost like I get to be more theatrical when I work in voiceover.
