Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
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When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
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I'd hope that the story A Dog's Purpose helps everyone reflect on how many different "lives" we all live - from children to teenager to adults to seniors - and how each phase of life presents new situations along the way to discovering our ultimate purpose.
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I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.
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Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them - all of these further a child's brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.
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I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
