Studs Terkel Quotes
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.
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If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
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Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
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I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.
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Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.
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I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
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I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
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I know how to be a gracious loser.
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I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.
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Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.
