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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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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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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My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
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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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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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You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.
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I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.
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Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
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There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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I don't know if I really watched any Disney animation as a kid.
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I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer.
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The haters out there, I don't really pay attention to them, because I feel like I'm doing the best I can, and I just don't want that negativity into my heart and into my mind.
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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
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If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything - without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.
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Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.
