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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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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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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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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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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In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.
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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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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.
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Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
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There were a lot of manufacturing jobs lost over a long period of time and particularly after - during the Great Recession. We've had some recovery in manufacturing employment as the economy's recovered.
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Don't all the girls get prettier at closing time?
