Barbara Parkins Quotes
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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I like music a lot.
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I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
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I'd like to to do a major pay-per-view match with Seth Rollins. I'd love do a major pay-per-view match with Stardust.
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We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.
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For U.S. television series, I really like 'Dexter.'
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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
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When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!
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While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea.
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I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.
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I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
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I'd very much like to be Ava Gardner. She IS sex.
