BarbaraNeely (Barbara Neely) Quotes
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.
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The school I went to was a little farm school in Wannaska, student body 61 or something. There was a kid, the only black kid in our county, Dustin Byfuglien. He won the Stanley Cup a couple years back with the Blackhawks. Out of a class of 21 kids, he and I always had to be on opposite teams on everything because we were the most athletic.
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After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.
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I think it was a modest thing I did (Fahrenheit 9/11) ... this is an election year ... I'm not telling them how to vote. I'm saying get information about the issues ... at first there's just silence, then there's 'Yeah!' and then there's 'Boo' ... I have never seen a reaction like this, in all my years of touring ... Clear Channel can't threaten to not play my records because they are not going to play them anyway.
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Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.
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I have a certain energy on screen, and it's either needed or it's definitely not needed. I know that I can stick out like a sore thumb, and there are some women I'm not ready to play.
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It's not meant to be entertaining. If you want entertainment, go to the pictures. This is serious!
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What a gorgeous day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an axe.
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The Atonement of Jesus Christ outweighs, surpasses, and transcends every other mortal event, every new discovery, and every acquisition of knowledge, for without the Atonement all else in life is meaningless.
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It all comes down to this: if your subconscious "financial blueprint" is not "set" for success, nothing you learn, nothing you know, and nothing you do will make much of a difference.
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The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.
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If learning prepares you to deal positively and productively with change, then it is more important now than ever before.
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The most important thing for me, when somebody asks me what I class as being a success, is being a decent human being.
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I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive.
