Morrie Ryskind Quotes
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.
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I think abortion is murder.
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I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.
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Living by myself out in Malibu has been really good. I kind of have my freedom; I've got a whole house to myself. The tough part comes when sometimes, you know, you get pretty lonely.
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I have a lot of milestones that I'm proud of when it comes to music, 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted,' I'm extremely proud of that. Just because of what I had to go through to get that music produced, that album produced.
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I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.
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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
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The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.
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Live, for I love you!
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'Why did you stop at a red light and let me hit you doin' 80?!'
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I'm afraid of a cappella. I don't read music, and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I'm a melody singer only.
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Let's call a spade a spade: when people look at me, they say, 'Oh, she's the androgynous one.' I'll tell you what type of character I would never be offered out there: The femme fatale. Or the white-trash, heterosexual hillbilly.
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I played the bars in northern California since I was 18. We played at least three hours, and there's no which-way about it: That definitely helped.
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Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
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No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.
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I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.
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I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?
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I still can't believe I danced with Gene Kelly. How lucky am I that I've been in movies where I've danced with two of the greatest dancers of all time - with Gene Kelly and John Travolta.
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Ever since I've met you, I've swept you off my feet.
