Zeena Parkins Quotes
The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body.
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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I care about Bahrain.
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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I don't marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.
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I can count on one hand how many people I trust.
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If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?
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I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.
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When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
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In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.
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I had crushes on women - actually I loved charismatic, extreme people, women or men. By high school I was saying I must be a lesbian, because if you are attracted to women, you're a lesbian. I was also attracted to men, but I didn't get along with men.
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They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?
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Cuando tu dolor es un poco mayor que mi dolor, me siento un poco cruel.
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I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.
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I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.
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You always hear about fashion's success stories. How a starlet lost an earring one night and by the next morning, the entire country was wearing one earring. Or how sweaters made a comeback in a drugstore, or a First Lady influenced how we dressed during her reign. But what about the losers? The fashions that came and went out the same day? The hopes and dreams of designers that were shattered by the sound of fifty million women ... laughing themselves to death.
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I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.
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I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
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I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.
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Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
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The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body.
