Ray Stevens Quotes
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It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
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Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.
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Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the '70s and through the hospital wards of the '80s and onwards to the streets.
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When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I'm upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally.
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Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.
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I love my country, and it hurts not to be able to see my country, as I did for so many years. I hope that I will one day be able to live in a peaceful Colombia.
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There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work.
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I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.
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What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.
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The real Edie is where the action is. Fast cars, fast horses, and people doing things!
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
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Why can't I make up my own characters and paint the people I want to see in the world? I'm depicting the many people who existed in history but whose presence was never documented.
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The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.
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I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.
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Everything is beautiful in its own way.
