Mickey Gilley Quotes
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
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How'm I doing?
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I love my life. I love my work. I love my training. It's all due to my love for life, my love for people. I'm very happy to be alive.
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It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
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By cultivating friendliness towards happiness and compassion towards misery, gladness towards virtue and indifference towards vice, the mind becomes pure.
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We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe...
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It is a wake-up call for all of us unless we put our house in order. The people of this country are becoming restless.
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I grew up beyond proud - we didn't have much, but we had a lot of love.
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Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
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I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.
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I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.
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Be a member of the human race. Love somebody. Change the world.
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For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.
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Don't all the girls get prettier at closing time?
