Rick Larsen Quotes
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
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Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.
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I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
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The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
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I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.
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It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.
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I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma - let him get off as he can.
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You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.
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Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one's own.
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I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.
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If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?
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The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal.
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Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.
