Barbara Hamby Quotes
When I was a young woman, I had this friend who was really beautiful, and she would talk about how she was losing her looks, that she wasn't as pretty as she once was. She was gorgeous, and I thought, I'm going to stop this bad habit of self-criticism that I think a lot of women get into. You make a choice to be different.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.
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Swimming and all other sports have got to get to that place where you have the trust of the people watching it.
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Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.
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We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.
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If I lie, I forget what I said the first time. I won't remember the lie. I don't know how people do it.
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Not everyone has to have children. If everyone had two or three, we'd run out of room.
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'Letters From Home' is a story inspired by my grandparents' epistolary courtship.
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No one wants to be lectured at.
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My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck.
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I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get.
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The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.
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I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid.
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Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.
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I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.
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When I was a young woman, I had this friend who was really beautiful, and she would talk about how she was losing her looks, that she wasn't as pretty as she once was. She was gorgeous, and I thought, I'm going to stop this bad habit of self-criticism that I think a lot of women get into. You make a choice to be different.
