Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) Quotes
I believe sometimes we aren't always in charge of everything that we do creatively. We submit to things as we're going on our own journey.
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
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If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.
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I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.
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I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.
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I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
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I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
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This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.
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The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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I do see myself as an old-fashioned storyteller. But there's always a touch of the political in my plays.
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I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.
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I believe sometimes we aren't always in charge of everything that we do creatively. We submit to things as we're going on our own journey.
