Richard Rodney Bennett Quotes
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What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?
Sam Kinison
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
Fiona Apple
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
Kara Lindsay
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
Barton Gellman
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I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.
Natalie Zea
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America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
Ian Frazier
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
Fernando Botero
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
Kate Winslet
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I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
Carlene Carter
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I spend a lot of time on my music.
Adam Hicks
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When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.
Karin Slaughter
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If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.
Jackson Katz
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Johnny Depp gave me the best advice. He said, 'Keep your feet on the ground. Stay grounded. Remember where you came from.'
Sam Claflin
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To be honest, many of my well-wishers want me to play the solo lead in films. Maybe, it's time to think about it. In fact, I have cut down on signing up multi-starrer films.
Vijay Sethupathi
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One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
Barbara Hepworth
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Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.
Cat Stevens
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It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so on, and so they're even more successful in that context than they were on the record.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.
Tony Abbott
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I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
Padgett Powell
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I want to go play a villain or an action hero or a nice, light, romantic comedy or something. That would be good.
Dash Mihok
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What Nirvana's success means is that certain radio stations now have their ear more cocked to bands like us; they're more open to playing more stuff.
Lee Ranaldo
Sonic Youth
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I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.
Richard Rodney Bennett
