Barbara Parkins Quotes
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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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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God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.
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I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
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Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.
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When you have these surprise breakout films that do well, that have good performances in them, it puts a lot of pressure on the Academy to recognize those projects, so it's more of a conversation about what is greenlit.
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I'd very much like to be Ava Gardner. She IS sex.
