Amanda Bearse Quotes

My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it.

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• I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.

  

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• Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.

  

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• For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.

  

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• The most common time I write lyrics is the middle of the night.

  

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• It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.

  

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• My favorite teammate of all time was Dan Reeves. Dan and I roomed together for four years. Dan's probably one of my best friends. I can understand him. He's from Americus, Ga., got that old, slow, southern drawl stuff. Dan's a great guy. Great competitor. He probably taught me more about football than any of the coaches did. He was still a student of the game. When you go from college to the pros, college football, yeah, you've got a playbook, but it ain't that big. Well when you get in the pros, you've got a playbook that's pretty thick. I was lost, really. But he showed me what to study and how to study.

  

  Walt Garrison
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  • Taught

• Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.

  

  Fritz Hollings
  • Law
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• I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.

  

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• Chess is, above all, a fight.

  

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• No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

  

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  • Written
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• I like there to be a joke in practically every photo I take. Nobody has the right to make photography boring.

  

  Norman Parkinson
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• The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera.

  

  Norman Parkinson
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• Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun.

  

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• I'm stupidly curious. I will go and touch anything until I find out that it's very harmful.

  

  Steven Yeun
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• Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

  

  Ernestine Rose
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• You can linger too long in your dreams...

  

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• I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem - because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water.

  

  Rashid Johnson
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  • Because
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• I've always been a tapper, as in, on tables, school desks, my legs and chest. I've eventually been able to figure out how to move that to the guitar.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • American
  • Musician
  • Move

• My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it.

  

  Amanda Bearse
  • Homosexual
  • Latent