Amelia Barr Quotes
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
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Broadway is really my life.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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Friends are not made, but recognized.
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Michael Kitchen was a great person to work with. So attentive and just great at what he does and supportive, also.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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It's OK to turn down stuff that isn't really interesting and spend the summer with my family.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
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I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway.
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We know the fans love us to death, and the people that hear out music love our music.
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Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
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On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
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In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
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This condition that exists in our harbors is not just a maritime industry problem, it's a problem for every resident, every business in Hawaii.
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Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.
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To me, running is therapy. It's mood-altering and gets my endorphins going. It's also a great release and a great energy builder.
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You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.
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But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
